Vincent Moon is an independent French filmmaker and intrepid explorer who made a name for himself as a music video director for indie bands like R.E.M. and The National. Over the past twenty years he has been traveling the world making films that probe the boundaries between cinema, documentary and ethnographic musical research.
With his live-cinema Vincent Moon presents a collage of experiences drawn from his personal archive Petites Planètes, a series of over a thousand films capturing the essence of traditional trance based ceremonies, ecstatic rituals and sacred music from around the world. Each performance is unique with Moon acting as a mesmerised medium summoning images and sounds woven from a stream of memories, his camera moves intimately among the celebrants he shares these experiences with. This is ritual cinema, where Moon transforms the projection hall into a visceral, body shaking spiritual ceremony, where he is not a spectator, and neither are we.
Filmmaker's website
Trailer
Mexico | 2024 | English, Spanish & Maya with English subtitles | 89 min
A young Maya is hired to deliver hallucinogenic toads for a shamanic ritual in the jungle, where he finds himself caught in the middle of a mutiny between the native Mayas and a cult-like community of Euro-Western spiritual seekers led by a darkly charismatic new age guru. Shot on 16mm film with pulpy colour saturated cinematography Wetiko is an intense and inventive psychedelic horror and satire on new age psychedelic shamanism.
Q&A with Director Kerry Mondragon
Kerry Mondragon is a writer, director, and producer of Tyger Tyger (2020) and Wetiko (2024).
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