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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. The Order of Myths: Directed by Margaret Brown. In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color line, we see that beneath the surface of pageantry lies something else altogether. Stefannie Lucas is the black Mobile Mardi Gras Queen of 2007. She is a teacher at Maryvale Elementary School in a neighborhood that has an 80 percent poverty rate. During February—when most of Mardi Gras takes place and which is also Black History Month—Stefannie teaches the fifth-graders about segregation in the South. The documentary presents an unflinching examination of the racial divide in Mobile’s Mardi Gras celebrations, which have remained largely unchanged for centuries. The film showcases the mystique and grandeur of the two separate Mardi Gras celebrations, highlighting the elaborate floats, costumes, and traditions embraced by both communities. About the Documentary. The first Mardi Gras in America was held in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. Three hundred and five years later, the city’s annual Carnival is split down the middle, with separate This unsettling 2008 doc explores one of the last bastions of American segregation: Mobile, Alabama, where whites and blacks still throw separate Mardi Gras celebrations. Great work but it should be noted recent developments show how appropriate the title of the film truly is. Ms. Brown begins the work with a statement of common folklore -- that Mobile began celebrating Mardi Gras in 1703, 15 years before New Orleans was even founded -- that elicited a rousing ovation from approximately 2,000 attendees at the Mobile premiere. Although "Mardi Gras" immediately brings to mind New Orleans for most people, the first Mardi Gras in America was actually held in Mobile, Ala., over 300 years ago. Remarkably, even in 2007, the This award-winning documentary from "Descendant" director Margaret Brown explores the racially divided Mardi Gras traditions in Mobile, Alabama. Watch trailers & learn more. “The Order of Myths” is a wise and soberly affecting documentary about the separate but unequal Mardi Gras festivities that take place each year in Mobile, Ala. Filmmaker Margaret Brown’s second feature documentary, 2008’s The Order of Myths, about segregated Mardi Gras ceremonies in Mobile, Ala., is structured around a historical trauma with present-day resonance. Mobile, Alabama is the mother of mystics, the original birthplace of Mardi Gras as we know it! Each year, the city and its surrounding communities come together for weeks of parades, masked balls, MoonPies and merry-making leading up to Fat Tuesday, a season that is collectively known as Mardi Gras. A feature-length documentary film about Mardi Gras in Mobile that premiered early this year at the famed Sundance Film Festival will be distributed in theaters and on DVD by New York-based The Originally envisioned as a broader exploration of Mardi Gras across Mobile, New Orleans, and Southeast Louisiana, the documentary ultimately narrowed its focus to Cajun Mardi Gras, where the Originally envisioned as a broader exploration of Mardi Gras across Mobile, New Orleans, and Southeast Louisiana, the documentary ultimately narrowed its focus to Cajun Mardi Gras, where the Be a part of the historic celebration that has been in Mobile since 1703. Mardi Gras celebrations begin two and a half weeks before Fat Tuesday and the Port City comes to life. Elaborate themed floats manned by masked mystic societies, mounted police and marching bands wind through downtown Mobile and surrounding areas, entertaining nearly a million revelers MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Although most Mardi Gras parades in Mobile use one route, there are multiple routes that parade-goers should know before heading out the door. Most of the Mobile Vice’s new documentary, “Vice’s Guide to Mardi Gras,” explores the Cajun tradition of Mardi Gras, known as Courir de Mardi Gras. The documentary highlights the physicality and revelry of the tradition, with participants often covered in mud and engaging in chaotic chases. Mardi Gras is known The most famous New Orleans carnival is the French-influenced carnival organized not by the public authorities, but by the “Krewes.” It starts with the Krewe The film begins with Mobile is abuzz about the imminent announcement of the two new Mardi Gras royal courts. But the narrative takes an unexpected twist when it is revealed that this year’s white Mardi Gras queen, debutante Helen Meaher, is the direct descendent of an outlaw who ran the last slave ship to enter the United States, more than 50
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