La
Curación (The Healing)
Ethnographic Documentary, 2008
La
Curación is an experiment
in ethnography located in the breathing, volcanic geography
of Ecuador. Told through a series of conceptual narratives
(an epileptic revolutionary, a fire-breathing shaman,
a
poet-physician,
a campesino visionary), the film reveals deeply
layered understandings of health, healing, and the human
body.
The
Quito Film Collective connects Screen Arts and Cultures
faculty and students
at the University of Michigan, Film, Video, and New Media
MFA students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
with global health researchers, medical students and
professional
documentary
filmmakers.
The
collective received the Ginsberg Student, International
Individual and McVay Fellowships for the production of "The
Healing."
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
