Trance Cinema #3: Ritual and Healing

Sat, Apr 15
8:30PM
$10.00 RSVP (Limited seating)

Trance Cinema #3: Ritual and Healing
"Eduardo the Healer", "The Xinguana"and "First Americans and Their Gods"
Screen At Oddball Films

On Saturday, April 15th at 8:30PM Oddball Films presents "Trance =

Cinema #3: Ritual and Healing", a program of films showcasing ritual, =

shamanism and indigenous culture in South America. Admission is =

$10.00 RSVP(Limited Seating). To RSVP email: or =

call 415-558-8117. The venue address is 275 Capp Street.

"Trance Cinema #3: Ritual and Healing" is the 3rd installment in our =

program of ethnographic films examining altered states of awareness =

in world cultures.
Produced and directed by Richard Cowan in 1979 with a grant from the =

Drug Abuse Council of the US Department of Health, Education and =

Welfare the award-winning documentary "Eduardo the Healer", features =

a Peruvian Village shaman who, like Castenda's Don Juan uses =

incantations, insightful spiritual analysis and the hallucinogenic =

"San Pedro" plant cactus to practice his healing arts. A staple of =

major University anthropology programs "Eduardo the Healer" =

illuminates and explores the mind of the wise shaman and the world of =

South America's many native "curanderos" who work with the poor.

"The Xinguana, Aborigines of South America" (1971) is a fascinating =

ethnographic portrait of the Xinguana, farmer-fisherman of the Xingu =

River watershed whose culture remained unchanged until recently. This =

film explores all aspects of Xinguana life including their =

horticulture, architecture, weapon making, transportation, body =

ornamentation, puberty rites and more. The film culminates in the =

days long Kwarup funeral ceremony honoring their dead ancestors in =

which the tribes people don intricately designed ceremonial body =

paint and participate in a number of highly charged rituals revolving =

around the initiation of the young as well as the myths of the creation.
For a comprehensive and enlightening look at where the Xinguana are =

today visit: www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/xingu/ =

kwarup.shtm

"First Americans and Their Gods", (1969) Utilizing pointillist, =

abstract, and multiplanar split-image figures, the great animator and =

director Philip Stapp reenacts Mayan and Aztec cultures as it unfolds =

in codex-like form, accompanied by ethno music concr=E8te by Thomas =

Wagner & Arthur Burrows. A chillingly depicted sequence depicts the =

act of human sacrifice by the Aztecs.

Plus! Native tribal music from Brazil.

Venue:

Oddball Films
275 Capp Street
San Francisco
415-558-8117
www.oddballfilm.com

Off Mission between 17th and 18th, Mission and S Van Ness.
Closer to 18th Street.

Additional Info:

415-558-8117
www.oddballfilm.com