Waimaha
Francois Fleury
2018 - 42 min - Video Ultra HD - Couleur - France

Wai : fish, Maha : people. Both an ethnographic study and an artistic meditation, this film presents the life and rituals of the Waimaha people through their myths. Shot in the Columbian Vaupès, a region which has attracted anthropologists since the 1970s, the film relates three ancestral Amazonian legends told by shamans.
It foregrounds the spoken word of learned men and women who keep this culture alive and adapt it to the 21st century. The musicality of their language and their non-linear narration of this culture's thought meld with contemplative tableaux, rendering a double and renewed reality for the spectator.

Anthropologie | Identité culturelle | Mythe | Patrimoine | Vie rurale | Colombie


Author-Director : Francois Fleury
Photography : Francois Fleury
Sound : Jean-Yves Leloup
Editing : Thomas Lallier
Delegate Producer : Francois Fleury

Distribution


Distributor : Francois Fleury