The Mystic Knights of Adonis has been together since 1998 and have paraded on the Westbank of New Orleans, LA. Throughout the years they have grown and shared with families and friends their love of Carnival. The krewe is working very hard to keep family on the Westbank so they can share with families who don't wish to go into New Orleans for Carnival Parades.
About the DVD The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown (Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt), herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city s two carnivals. With unprecedented access, she traces the exotic world of secret mystic societies and centuries-old traditions and pageantry; diamond-encrusted crowns, voluminous, hand-sewn gowns, surreal masks and enormous paper mache floats. Against this opulent backdrop, she uncovers a tangled web of historical violence and power dynamics, elusive forces that keep this hallowed tradition organized along enduring color lines.
