The Order of Myths (2008)
July 25, 2008Release Date
The Order of Myths (2008)
July 25, 2008Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Louis Black
Associate Producer
Margaret Brown
Director
Gabby Stein
Co-Producer
Sara Alize Cross
Producer
Michael Simmonds
Cinematographer
Christine Mattsson
Executive Producer
Geoffrey Richman
Editor
Michael Taylor
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateJuly 25, 2008
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 37m
Filming LocationsMobile, United States of America
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The Order of Myths is a 2008 documentary film directed by Margaret Brown. It focuses on the Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Alabama, the oldest in the United States. It reveals the separate mystic societies established and maintained by Black and White groups, and acknowledges the complex racial history of a city with a slaveholding past.
While showing the mystic societies' ties to economic, class and racial stratification, the film showed the beginnings of interaction between the Black and White courts. It tells some of the history of Africatown, a community formed north of Mobile in 1860 by Africans from Ghana, transported illegally as slaves to Mobile decades after the end of the slave trade.
The film competed in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. It had a limited release in New York in July 2008, and ran on Independent Lens, a PBS series featuring independent films, in 2009. It was distributed by The Cinema Guild.