Venezuela 1984
Language: o. Dialog
Subtitles: (none)
Director: Diego Rísquez
Camera: Andrés Agustí, Marieta Pérez
Script: Luis Ángel Duque, Diego Rísquez
Cast: Kosinegue, Rolando Peña, Hugo Márquez
Editor: Leonardo Henríquez
Music: Alejandro Blanco Uribe
Producer: Diego Rísquez
Sound: Alejandro Blanco Uribe
Distributer: Arsenal Distribution
Age Limit: <

Like many Central and South American filmmakers of his generation, Diego Rízques looked for inspiration in the lives of its indigenous people – The Yanomami live in the region between Venezuela and Brazil. One of their shamans ingests a psychedelic drug at an historically hard to pinpoint occasion (maybe eternity, paradise?). He is able to see the vain and baleful behavior of the rain forest’s conquerors ... A cinematic trance composed of images, sounds and melodies but without words. A purely cinematographic blank verse poem that opens up new perspectives on the prehistory of Venezuela in a factual, yet estranging manner.