Is the movie Hampi available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?

At Stream Tracker, we keep an eye on where cinematic treasures turn up online — including Jean Rouch’s 1962 short Hampi. Shot in Niamey and centered on the ritual vase known as the hampi, the film stages possession dances and the fraught transfer of a shrine object into the Musée de plein air de la République du Niger, showing how gods, ritual protocol and museology collide. Availability changes fast: check here whether Hampi is currently on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or AppleTV+. Though not a mainstream prize-seeker, the film remains a key ethnographic document for anyone interested in Songhay ritual objects and the cinematic ethics of filming possession ceremonies.

Synopsis

A hampi ritual vase is installed at the Open-Air Museum of the Republic of Niger in Niamey amid a ceremony marked by possession dances. Filmmaker Jean Rouch extends his ethnographic cinema on Songhay ritual objects, showing that relocating a hampi into a museum setting can demand a formal ritual to secure the gods’ assent. At the time, however, recording a possession dance for the inauguration of a museum shrine raised ethical and curatorial doubts, and was regarded as problematic from a museological perspective.

Release date

1962

Duration

1h 27min

Rating

Director

Takis Kanellopoulos

Country

Grèce

Genre(s)

Drame, Guerre

Cast

Aimilia Pitta Faidon Georgitsis Takis Emmanuel Eleni Zafeiriou Niki Triantafillidi Costas Messaris Stavros Tornes