LACS Film Series

‘Icaros: a vision’ is a story about fear and the release from fear – the fear of illness and of death, but also the fear of life and living. It’s about the possibility of living through one’s fear – which is what the Amazonian plant Ayahuasca is good at getting you to do. Centered on the nightly ceremonies that are the main feature of shamanic retreats, Icaros revels in darkness, replicating a shamanic journey. Set in the Peruvian Amazon among the Shipibo-Conibo community, the film is also driven by the conviction that acknowledging the power of plants is the best way to change the jeopardized future of the Amazon – itself like a dying patient.

Directors:

Matteo Norzi: Artist, designer, filmmaker and indigenous rights activist, currently serving as Executive Director at Shipibo Conibo Center in New York City. Co-founder of Cobino Productions with Leonor Caraballo and Abou Farman, which aims to promote the creativity and knowledge of the Amazonian Shipibo Conibo communities through a range of media.

Leonor Caraballo: Worked as a photographer and video artist between Buenos Aires and New York. She won a number of fellowships and grants, including the Latin American Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and an Eyebeam Art and Technology Center residency. Aspects of the film are based on co-director Leonor Caraballo’s true experiences. Although she dedicated herself to the project until the very end, sadly she died before she could see the film finished.

There is an installation of the Shipibo-Conibo artist Celia Vasquez Yui at the Johnson Museum right now, so we recommend visiting the exhibit before going to the screening.

Presented by Kanopy

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