
Jaguar Song
Yax Ixi'im Ek Balam
Various
July 2025
Film
A young Waorani woman finds a sacred river where she can hear the voice of her deceased grandmother singing. The grandmother embeds the instructions for peacemaking into the frequencies of her ancestral songs and shares them with the young woman. The woman listens to the songs and travels across multiverses to activate decolonial, matriarchal and peaceful timelines, trying to share the messages as widely as possible before the portal connection between her to her grandmother closes fovever.
CREDITS:
Ixchel Tōnantzin Xōchitlzihuatl - Concept, Story, and Script
AnAka - Direction, Editing and Story Doula
AKTIV8 Creative - Creative and World Building Consultants
Performed by Waorani, Shuar and Kichwa communities of Ecuador
ST2025 The Bioscope
Oude Libertas
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