Experience “Jungle Fever” From The Movie “Aya: Awakenings”

25 November 2015

 - In the documentary Aya: Awakenings, experiential journalist Rak Razam journeys into the world and visions of Amazonian shamanism. In this 16-minute excerpt from the film, titled “Jungle Fever,” Razam ventures into the jungle to participate in an ayahuasca ceremony with a group of fellow Westerners.

The video opens to the sound of an icaro, or traditional song sung by shamans during ayahuasca ceremonies, with a jungle background shimmering in geometric patterns.

“The trail is alive with the sound of birds, frogs, insects, and the screech of monkeys deep inside this fecund landscape,” Razam says as he treks through the Amazon jungle outside Iquitos, Peru. Soon, he and his film team arrive at the maloca, the wooden hut where the ceremonies are held.