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Request QuoteEn el 2011 fundé junto con un amigo cineasta y una amiga antropóloga una productora autónoma "Tlazocamati Producciones". El primer documental que rodamos fue sobre la vida de una mujer partera y desde entonces buscamos rodar documentales con el mismo espíritu que impulsó la creación de nuestra productora. Rodar documentales sustentados por intensas investigaciones haciendo uso de herramientas etnográficas y privilegiando una mirada comprensiva y crítica de la realidad. Queremos abordar todas aquella parcelas de la realidad que permanezcan en la oscuridad o que generen incomprensión con el propósito de brindarles una halo de luz. Nuestra línea esta muy centrada en el tema de la mujer, la vida cotidiana, la espiritualidad pero buscamos cada vez más ampliar nuestro abnico temático.En el 2011 estudié el master de antropología visual en la Universitat de Barcelona para afinar la metodología etnográfica y combinarla con las herramientas audiovisuales.
Mazatec campesinos in the mountains of the Sierra where local cultivation of Salvia divinorum, or La Pastora as it is known by the Mazatec, met the initial demand for the plant around the world, and once promised an important source of income for these indigenous communities. For many of these local cultivators the trade around La Pastora collapsed as mysteriously as it came about.
What does the term "queer" mean and what do psychedelics have to do with it? Speakers from Queering Psychedelics share their perspectives on the subversive, creative potential of being on the margins and the intersection between embracing alternative identities and the use of psychedelics.
The international drug control regime that emerged in 1961 has caused more harm to individuals and communities than the consumption of the plants and substances it seeks to control. In this sense, experts participating in the forum Sacred Plants: Uses and Norms explained some of the costs of the current drug control models.
The second instalment in the Divinorum web-series looks at recent efforts to criminalize Salvia divinorum and its active component salvinorin A in Mexico and other countries around the world. The episode explores how these prohibitionary movements came about, the unsubstantiated arguments used to justify them, and ultimately their wider failings.
Don Joel recalls his real-life encounter with a chikon, ambiguous deities in the Mazatec cosmovision. In a difficult financial situation his plucky young self impatiently beseeches the beneficent intervention of Chikon Nindo. When an opportunity finally arrives in the shape of an unexpected stranger.
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