An American Ethnographer in a Sufi Community by John L. Caughey
“I was entranced. It was like coming to a place I had dreamed about, a true home.”
Category: Film
The Mystical Cinema of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
by Peter Valentyne
The cinematic tattoo “Written, Produced & Directed by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell” preceded some of the most unique and visionary films of the forties.
I Pet Goat, II
For Issue #84 of SUFI we spoke to Louis Lefebvre, artistic director of Heliofant productions, the animation outfit behind the short film I Pet Goat, II which created a viral whirlwind of speculation when it was released online last year.
Men of Faith
OF GODS & MEN (2010) FILM REVIEW
By Peter Valentyne
Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, director Xavier Beauvois’s film Of Gods and Men is based on the true story of a group of Cistercian monks who lived a monastic life of prayer and service in Algeria from 1993 until 1996, when they were kidnapped and then killed by radical Islamic insurgents.