La
Curación (The Healing)
Ethnographic Documentary, 2008
La
Curación is an experimental
ethnographic film sited in the volatile beauty of Ecuador's
volcanic capital, Quito,
a nearby cluster of healing villages, and a fisherman's
wharf near the Colombian border. Told through a series
of musings and personal narrativs (an
epileptic
revolutionary,
a fire-breathing
shaman,
a
poet-physician,
a campesino visionary), the film reveals deeply
layered understandings of health, healing, and the
body as a porous membrane.
The
Quito Film Collective connects students and scholars
with global health researchers, medical students, and
documentary makers from the Americas. Production was
completed at the University of Michigan and The School
of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Credits
Direction/
Field Production/ Editing - Yoni Goldstein,
Meredith Zielke
Production: The
Quito Film Collective - Yoni
Goldstein, Meredith Zielke, Sergio Huarcaya,
Anica Madeo, Kyle Fish, Dana Kuhn, Gonzalo
Escobar, Susan Fawcett
Executive
Production: Patrick Schaller
Original
Score: Breathe Owl Breathe and Drafted
by Minotaurs
