“And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.” Maya Deren Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowskaya, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and [...]

Over 100,000 people have died as a result of Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti. In 1804 Native Haitians defeated French colonists and declared independence. The unifying force behind their improbable revolution? Vodou. So now the question remains, who made pact with the devil? The French who kidnapped people from their home country, enslaved them, tortured, rapped and murdered thousands of innocent men women and children or is it the the descendants of slaves who against all odds maintained and held on to their traditions and beliefs until these beliefs united them to rise up and ultimately earn their liberation from their oppressors ? You choose.

Avatar : A Shamanic Journey
Is Hollywood capitalizing from Shamanism?