Hash Movie in A2

Secret Ceremony - Smoking Nash in Afghanistan is the titie of a tvventy minute pilot film of a soon to be full-length feature film. The tantalizing pilot will be shown in A2 Friday and Saturday nights, November 2 and 3, at the VFW Hall (314 E. Liberty, below Soybean Cellars). If you've seen the full color posters mysteriously appearing around town recently, showing an old man toking one of the biggest water pipes ever seen with a huge cloud of smoke billowing from his lungs, you've got a preview of what this flick has to offer.

The film was made by two local people, Will McPherson and Chris Turner, who in the process of filming had the unfortunate experience of being ripped off for S20.000 worth of equipment and put in jail for two months, in chains, for allegedly spying for the U.S.

Secret Ceremony shows the first scenes ever fïlmed of the Afghani Hash shashin's hash-pressing process. The Hash shashins (from which the word "assasin" derives) are the "protectors of the pipe" in Afghanistan. They have the exclusive privilege/duty of pressing the hash. The film is in full, stunning color, and there'll be a band.