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Jaguar Song

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

00:00 / 01:04

ST2025 is brought to you by Outset Contemporary Art Fund and many more

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