The first part was posted April 18 and the second part on April In , Zambian Watchdog ranked Zambia the poorest country in the world, ahead of such impoverished regions and nations as Gaza Strip, Zimbabwe and Suriname. As the movie opens, to music by Vivaldi, a busload of tourists arrive at a remote Zambian village to gawk at and snap photos of elderly women seated behind an improvised barrier.
The women have painted faces, are dressed in blue and white ragged clothing, and each is tethered to a long white ribbon attached to a giant spool. The police contact a government official Henry BJ Phiri , who is excited by the prospect of new opportunities to make money.
Shula is offered the choice to remain a witch or become a goat. Bewildered she is virtually silent throughout the movie , Shula chooses the first option, initially making her a local celebrity.
Now a tool helping the corrupt, wealthy politician to get on television talk shows and sell his brand of eggs, Shula is also forced to pick out alleged criminals from a line-up. But, above all else, she is expected to bring rain to a parched, drought-plagued country. It is not long before Shula laments her decision not to become a goat, an animal that has more freedom than do the witches.
It becomes clear that the witches are essentially slave labor, hoeing the rocky, scorched fields for the landowners. Yet another way to fleece the women. Winogrand produced hundreds of thousands of photographs with his 35mm Leica, creating a chronicle of life in America from the late s to the early s that focuses on New York City, later on Texas and eventually on Hollywood. When he died suddenly at age 56, Winogrand left behind more than 10, rolls of filmβmore than a quarter of a million undeveloped pictures!
