The Shaman's Apprentice
Phil Short recently returned from a month long visit in Suriname. While there he met Fritz van Troon, a shaman featured in Mark Plotkin's documentary, The Shaman's Apprentice.
I invite you to visit Phil's Blog DKP Suriname to check out a few photos.
The Shaman's Apprentice is a feature documentary. It was filmed on location in Suriname, South America in February of 1999, in both 16mm and Beta SP. It premiered at the MountainFilm Festival in Telluride, Colorado in May 2001.
"When a shaman dies in a pre-literate culture it's like a library burning down. In fact it's worse, because everything that is in the Library of Congress is found elsewhere. When these oral traditions are gone, they are gone forever, there is no bringing them back. And these oral traditions are the key to understanding, utilizing, protecting the rain forest. They are the key to developing new medicine from the rain forest."
--Dr. Mark Plotkin
I invite you to visit Phil's Blog DKP Suriname to check out a few photos.
The Shaman's Apprentice is a feature documentary. It was filmed on location in Suriname, South America in February of 1999, in both 16mm and Beta SP. It premiered at the MountainFilm Festival in Telluride, Colorado in May 2001.
"When a shaman dies in a pre-literate culture it's like a library burning down. In fact it's worse, because everything that is in the Library of Congress is found elsewhere. When these oral traditions are gone, they are gone forever, there is no bringing them back. And these oral traditions are the key to understanding, utilizing, protecting the rain forest. They are the key to developing new medicine from the rain forest."
--Dr. Mark Plotkin
posted by Duane Short | 8/15/2006 08:00:00 PM
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