Cinema da floresta

In the Alto Ucayali region, cinema is a meaningful lived experience comparable to the hallucinogen ayahuasca, which is called the 'cinema of the forest' because it makes normally invisible powerful beings visible. Both film and ayahuasca experiences differ from dreaming.

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Abstract

This essay is a phenomenological ethnography or cinema as meaningful lived experience in the Alto Ucayali. It also explores the analogy between films and hallucinogen ayahuasca called "cinema of the forest" that renders the normally-invisihle powerful beings in visible form . If film and ayahuasca are similar, both experiences differ from dreaming.