Description

Includes public performance rights for use by public libraries, public high schools, and community-based organizations. This license permits the institution unlimited screenings, to non-paying audiences, for the life of the DVD. 




Ayahuasca has been used by Shamans and those they help for hundreds if not thousands of years. Found all over the amazon, Ayahuasca and it's incredible ability to heal has been slowly but steadily creeping into western consciousness. Metamorphosis is a documentary that follows several westerners as they undergo five ayahuasca ceremonies and experience the gamut of emotions from utter fear to outright ecstasy. It also explores the shamans who work with the medicine as well as all the key elements of an Ayahuasca ceremony.
As the film progresses, the difficulties of the experience are revealed as well as why each of the participants have come. Integral elements of the ceremony, such as the icaros (songs sung in ceremony) and the "purge" are explored further.
Finally, the film reveals the transformations people have undergone, from physical to emotional to spiritual, after having spent more than a week with ayahuasca. They reflect on their experience and share what they have learned, leaving changed from when they first arrived.


2-Disc Special Edition DVD!
DVD Special Features Includes:



• Deleted scenes


 • Over 30 minutes additional interview footage with Master Shaman Hamilton Souther


• Additional ceremony footage


 • Icaros (ceremonial songs) with jungle footage (over 30 minutes)


 • Ayahuasca Art Stills


 • 16 x 9 transfer

 For Mature Audiences Only

Festivals

Breckenridge Festival of Film 2009 (Winner - Best Cinematography)
5th International Amazonian Shamanism Conference:"The Art and the Heart of Healing" 2009

Production Credits & Notes

Director/Producer: Keith Aronowitz

Editor: Keith Aronowitz

Executive Producer: Mono Blanco Films LLC