AYA: Awakenings (2013)

Director: Timothy Parish, Rak Razam
Producer: Timothy Parish, Rak Razam
Genre: Documentary / Mystery
Country: Australia / Peru
Language: English

We who solve mystery, become mystery.

AYA: Awakenings is a documentary journey into the world and visions of Amazonian shamanism, adapted from the cult book ‘Aya: a Shamanic Odyssey’ by Rak Razam. As Razam sets out to document the booming business of Amazonian shamanism in the 21st century, he quickly finds himself caught up in a culture clash between the old world and the new. Braving a gringo trail of the soul, he uncovers a movement of ‘spiritual tourists’ coming from the West for a direct experience of the multidimensional reality shamanism connects one to.

~ Mind Revealing ~

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience is life trivialized,
life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
~ Terence McKenna ~

The Cosmic Giggle (2012)

Director: Michael Armstrong
Producer: Michael Armstrong
Genre: Documentary / Experimental
Country: United States
Language: English

A personal reservoir of experience unique to each individual.

The Cosmic Giggle is an experimental documentary film that explores the human energy field’s dynamic relationship with our environment. Naturally as human beings, we are connected to a vast network of fluid information inherent to the world around us. When we are children, we are open to this field through simple innocent observance, but because of our collective evolution towards a dominating and fixated worldview, this perception becomes veiled. This film reveals how this process takes place and provides keys for returning to a more primal and authentic experience of our reality.

At the Ends of the Earth / Au bout du Monde / На краю Земли (1998)

Director: Konstantin Bronzit
Producer: Konstantin Bronzit
Genre: Animation / Short
Country: France / Russia
Language: Russian / None

A strange story at the very top of the Caucasian mountains – the apex, pinnacle, vertex.

A family lives in a house that teeters precariously on the very tip of a mountain. The balance of the house is affected not only by the family that lives inside, but also their cow, dog, cat, a passing bird, and a man with a couple of sheep who returns in a car. The slopes of the hill themselves also seem rather slippery at times.

The film was included in the Animation Show of Shows and eventually gathering nearly 70 awards around the film festivals.

~ Measured Motion ~

Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the left;
rhythm compensates.
~ Hermes the Thrice-Greatest ~

~ Oneness & Identity ~

The meeting of Man and God is a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of Man in the Divinity.
~ Sri Aurobindo ~

 

The Range of Light (2011)

Director: Lawrence Martinez
Producer: Lawrence Martinez
Genre: Experimental / Short / Music
Country: United States
Language: English / None

All Fire & All Light.

Follow your heart and you will be free – free just to love, free just to be. Redwood dream, waterfall dream – giving is receiving. Music by Inner Islands.

~ Illusory Psychalgia ~

You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.
~ Eckhart Tolle ~

Contact / Контакт (1978)

Director: Vladimir Tarasov
Producer: Alexander Kostinsky
Genre: Animation / Short / Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Language: Russian / None

The alien and the human being always can understand each other if there will be a good will.

The film has no dialogue in any language. All communication is made using music, gestures and gazes; the alien also tries to communicate by shapeshifting. Director Vladimir Tarasov explored this theme of universal communication in his other films; he considered animation “the Esperanto of all mankind”.

~ Continuum Infinity ~

The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
~ Ovid ~