Voodoo Woman
http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/reel_affirmations_2008/?id=13710/18/2008
CAROLINA VALENCIA IS a freelance filmmaker who struggled to find a story to tell, she says at the outset of this unfocused documentary. So, just as many with the power of the camera have done before her, she decides to put herself in the picture. Fortunately, she does have quite a story to tell. Unfortunately, she hasn't mastered the art of telling it. Her camera-work is glitchy, fading in and out and bouncing all around at times.
And then there's the issue with the story itself: She initially and officially -- see the title -- talks about her effort to become a witch doctor in the Santaria tradition. But that eventually morphs into her struggle to become a woman and her subsequent gender-identity activism.
