“The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703.  In 2007, it is still racially segregated.  Filmaker Margaret Brown (”Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt”), herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parrallet hearts of the city’s two carnivals.  With unprecedented access, she traces the exotic world of secret mystic societies and centuries-old traditions and pageantry;  diamond-encrusted crowns, voluminous, hand-sewn gowns, surreal masks and enormous paper mache floats.  Against this opulent backdrop, she uncovers a tangled web of historcal violence and power dynamics, elusive forces that keep this hallowed tradition organized along enduring color lines.” – theorderofmyths.com

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