WAIMAHA

Both an ethnographical study and an artistic meditation, this film presents the life and rituals of the Waimaha people through their myths. Shot in the Columbian Vaupès, a region which has attracted anthropologists since the 1970s, the film relates three ancestral Amazonian legends told by shamans. It foregrounds the spoken word of learned men and women who keep their culture alive and adapt it to the 21st century. The musicality of their language and their non-linear narration of this culture's thought meld with contemplative tableaux, rendering a double and renewed reality for the spectator.