AYAHUASCA Kosmik Journey is a Virtual Reality film in which participants are immersed in visions triggered by a dose of ayahuasca. Each virtual trip is its own experience, as different views and perspectives will reveal new ways of seeing and understanding. Tap into your inner sense of calm and lose yourself in the kosmik journey.
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It on January 13th 2018, 1.4m people across Hawai’i received an SMS from the state’s Emergency Management Agency: BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
In the minutes that followed, they were forced to confront existential questions that had been unthinkable just moments before: where could they go for shelter? What would remain of their communities if they survived a nuclear blast? How could they explain to their children why we live in a world where such unimaginable destruction was possible? And how could their own Government continue to pursue nuclear policies that threaten the entire global population every day?
By the time FEMA managed to retract the incorrect warning message, it was too late to pretend that normality would resume. Their collective experience had laid bare the growing threat that nuclear weapons pose to the world. In the words of Kauai resident Cynthia Lazaroff, ‘Nothing happened, but everything changed’.
Ayahuasca is part of my life. I have become a practitioner with the Shipibo. I follow their work, I learn, I receive the teachings. Then I write, I film. My wish is to share the intimate mystery of this experience.
Ayahuasca acts as a revealer, it is a plant that enables us to “see”, to “see ourselves”. Through chanting therapy, Ayahuasca helps a patient heal. But the patient is the one who self heals though his or her inner experience.
After studying at the École Des Arts Décoratifs in Nice, where he directed his first short films, Jan Kounen began work as assistant operator and director of music videos and documentaries.
In 1989, he made the short film Gisèle Kérosène, crowned Grand Prix in the category of Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival. In the early 90s , Kounen worked in advertising and made two highly acclaimed short films, Vibroboy and Little Red Riding Hood, the latter seeing him work with Emmanuelle Béart. In 1996, he made his first feature film on the eccentric and violent dog breed Dobermann, starring French actor Vincent Cassel.
After Dobermann, Jan Kounen traveled across Mexico and Peru, where he immersed in shaman culture and returned in 2004 with the western Blueberry, an adaptation of the famous comic strip where he gave the title role to Vincent Cassel. The same year, he continued his study of shamanism with the documentaries Other Worlds and Darshan – The Embrace (2005), Kounen staged the Comedy 99 Francs in 2007, a satire of the world of advertising produced by Jean Dujardin. After participating in the Project 8 where he campaigned to improve maternal health in the world, he made a film that captured Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky in which he depicts the connection of passion between the famous seamstress with the Russian composer. Starring Anna Mouglalis & Mads Mikkelsen. The film closed the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
JORGE TERESO is a director & digital artist from Buenos aires. His work ranges from playful and lysergic animations to realistic VR experiences and interactive installations. He’s a partner at 3dar studios, where he created its first award winning short film, Shave It (2013).
Since then he’s been creating 3dar’s original content, always in search of new ways to expand the possibilities of animation.
Written and directed by:
Jan Kounen
With the participation of
Guillermo Arévalo “Kestembetsa”
Produced by
Corentin Lambot, François Le Gall, Vincent Guttmann
Executive Producer
Antoine Cayrol, Marion Guth, Nicolas Bliez, Stéphane Hueber-Blies, Rodolphe Chabrier
Co-Executive Producer
Arnaud Colinart, Pierre Zandrowicz, Philippe Sonrier
Sound Design
Nicolas Becker
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