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Best Photography, Best Sound,
Hot Docs 2000 (Toronto)
Quebec – Canada, 1998,
Digital Video, Color,
52 min.
Researched, Written and Directed
by: Carlos
Ferrand
Photography: Philippe Lavalette
Sound Recording:
Catherine Van Der Donckt
Editing: Dominique Sicotte
Produced by:
Nathalie Barton
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To look for the meaning of life, filmmaker Carlos
Ferrand sets off in search of free spirits and creative minds.
In the course of a journey of initiation across the Americas, he
meets Pol Pelletier, woman of the theatre and spiritual adept; Pablo
Amaringo, environmental activist and former shaman, who has founded
a school of art and life in the middle of the Amazonian forest;
Franco Dragone, spiritual heir of Fellini and the Commedia del Arte,
and artistic director of the Cirque du Soleil; Eugene Tsui, Chinese-American
architect, athlete and musician - a modern Renaissance man some
of whose buildings seem to have been designed in outer space; and
Stuart Kauffman, one of America's leading scientific minds, whose
work leads to a new vision of the relationship between science and
the creative process.
This is a world where the ideal is alive and well, and where the
artist serves both as a guide and a source of hope. The film is
dedicated to Carlos Ferrand’s daughter Beatriz.
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