Since i’m starting to experiment with moving images, i got interested in narratives used in films.

One of the movies that really inspired me is ‘Embrace of the serpent’ by Ciro Guerra.

The film tells two stories thirty years apart, both featuring Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his tribe. He travels with two scientists, firstly with German Theo von Martius in 1909 and American named Evan in 1940, to look for the rare yakruna, a (fictional) sacred plant.

The movie links two historical stories that are not connected per-se. Fact and fiction are interchanged and come at odds with one another. By linking these two stories a transhistorical point of view is taken. This working method perfectly links to my own practice.