August 2 - 9, 2011

Flores en el desierto

Wednesday, August 3 - 8:30 pm
Documentary
México |
2011 |
Spanish OV
/ English ST
| 72m
José Álvarez

The sacred calendar of the Wirrarika (Huichol) people is marked by rites and ceremonies intended to find the Earth’s cosmic balance in all its component parts such as water, fire, animals – represented by Brother Deer “who gives his flesh as an offering to eat and his eyelashes to have his vision” and the god Hikuri, or the Peyote spirit. Revealing an initiatory knowledge.