Screening: "Heaven Earth" (Peru / Austria / Spanish, English / Engl. UT / 2008)

HEAVEN EARTH / synopsis
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*“Heaven Earth”* portrays in epic sequences an exploration into the
amazonian urban- and suburban field of “curanderismo”(practice of
latinamerican folkhealing), in and around the city of Iquitos.
“Heaven Earth” is an nexus of links, a network of stories, symbols,
lived-in-worlds and different drafts, which they represent in a
heterogenous way - a hybrid arrangement of “surreal ethnography” - a
patchwork of experimental art film, intermingled with indepth social
survey and surrealist storytelling. Personal approaches and backgrounds
of persons, linked to the phenomenon of contemporary amazonian
curanderismo are introduced.*T*ourist imagination, local myths and daily
life sequences embedded in the city of Iquitos and its surrounding
jungle intertwine during the dialogue of the cinematographic narration
to an panoramical multitude of perspectives. The film stretches a string
between lived allday reality and the world of the “imaginary”, both
situated in continuous interexchange. Collective and individual
imagination become blurred and interweave to an synaesthetic collage.
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*PRODUCTION*

Directed by: Rudolf Pinto do Amaral
Camera: Harald Scherz
Idea & Concept: Rudolf Pinto do Amaral
Edited by: Harald Scherz
produced by: Selva productions

Poetry: Royce S. Alido
Sounddesign+Mix: Thomas Poetz / soundtrackvienna

*CAST*
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… Percy Garcia Lozano
… Ron Wheelock
… Pablo Amaringo
… Royce Alido
… Jeremy Bennett
… Elisa Vargas Fernandez
… Alejandro Flores
… Edwin Godoy Perez
… Magaly Garcia
… Richard Garcia Huayambi
… Justin Hampton
… Philip Horvath
… Juan Ruiz Naupari
… Cesar Ruben Pena
… Alan Shoemaker

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*“HEAVEN EARTH” in tech lingo
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DV / PAL / 16:9
LENGTH: 60 min
LANGUAGE VERSION: english/spanish with english subtitles