The [VID] Video "The Mad Masters" consists of different sequences, which were recorded during a celebrity impersonator and look-alike convention in Las Vegas. The protagonists of the [VID] Video are professionals as well as prospective impersonators. All scenes show fragments of interviews, their performances as well their simple presence. The transition between the characters they represent and their own personality can be blurred. Though in which gradations the identifications take place, stays open. The title refers to the documentary "Les Maitre Fous" (1955) by Jean Rouch, which is about a ceremony sect, The Hauka, which was widespread in West Africa from the 1920s to the 1950s. During this ritual the Hauka entered trance and were possessed by various spirits associated with the Western colonial powers: the governor-general, the engineer, the doctor's wife, the wicked major, the corporal of the guard.