Directed by Taliesin Black-Brown and narrated by Ramiro Vargas Chumpí Washikiat, “I Am the Nature” poetically plumbs the human interconnection with nature by means of the eyes of the Indigenous Achuar individuals. The quick documentary honors the philosophy of a tradition whose ancestral lands lengthen throughout the trendy borders of Ecuador and Peru, deep within the Amazon rainforest. At the moment, Achuar nonetheless residing within the rainforest proceed to follow and protect ancestral methods of life.
Within the early twentieth century, the federal government granted oil concessions that allowed trade to systematically transfer nearer to the Achuar homeland. Additional enlargement and growth within the area elevated dramatically within the Sixties, initiating contact between the Achuar and the Western world.
Washikiat chronicles a imaginative and prescient he had as a boy, which foretold he would journey to the U.S. to study English. In his journey, he noticed unbelievable cultural and societal contrasts, comparable to individualism rather than collectivity, and but his experiences away from the jungle instilled an ever deeper understanding that we’re all youngsters of the earth.
“I Am the Nature” introduces us to a lifestyle inextricably entwined with the encompassing setting, concurrently reliant on and in concord with nature. “We peacefully live in a simple way,” Washikiat says. “That’s what we would like to share to the world.”
The quick movie was an official choice within the 2024 DOC NYC documentary movie pageant and the 2024 Banff Heart Mountain Movie Pageant, amongst others. See it on Vimeo.
