Guitar Madagascar (2015)

• 73%
• 2015
• Documentary
• Music
• Takeshi Kamei

Guitar Madagascar is a movie about the people of Madagascar, the fourth largest island in the world. It's a movie about their views on life and death, and also about how everything is connected by a rich culture of music. In Madagascar, death is seen as one phase of eternal life. Via funerals and other rituals a dead person continues to have a presence among the living. For today's people of Madagascar, music remains an essential way to interact with the spirits of their ancestors. Guitar Madagascar follows the travels of 5 musicians as they reconnect with their roots. These trips paint a picture of the lives of a people who live modestly off the land, and where a joyful music springs up at the smallest opportunity.