FAKI: Soldiers of God

This short documentary film follows the urban path of a London-based Congolese brass band, FAKI, part of the Kimbanguist church, a transnational Afro-Christian movement. FAKI brass band members meet and worship in converted warehouses, anonymous within the urban fabric of the post-industrial metropolis. However, through their religious practice, territorial and sonic presence Kimbanguists have carved out ‘third spaces’ of re-enchanchment within the urban moral landscape. Focusing on the discourses, embodiment, spatiality and aurality of the spiritual warfare, the film explores how contemporary African diasporic churches are, in their own terms, reconfigurating dialectics of margin/centrality, invisibility/visibility in a ‘global city’ like London.