This film is a free reinterpretation of Artaud&apos;s writings, and of his vision of the peyote&apos;s rite, during his trip to Mexico in 1936. &apos;Ciguri&apos; is a word where a multiplicity of symbolic and anthropological rotations intersect, eve...

Riccardo Vaia

Ciguri Aztec Hades

This film is a free reinterpretation of Artaud's writings, and of his vision of the peyote's rite, during his trip to Mexico in 1936. 'Ciguri' is a word where a multiplicity of symbolic and anthropological rotations intersect, eventually dissolving in pure image. The space described in Artaud's 'Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumara' is a space where geographical coordinates become lines of sight and lines of the body. In this film the peyote's rite, the 'primal flower' according to the Tarahumara's ancient culture, describes a celebration wherein the 'virality' of the image and of the word conspires to formulate what for us is the concept of 'desert' of vision. A place where the world reveals its 'nihil'. There is, of course, a shaman, a 'curandero', administering the peyote's beverage. Its consumption opens up the 'doors of perception'. But there is also another blind spot, a line extending itself further ahead and on the side of every audio-visual and sensory experience (of which cinema is nothing more than the subtle refraction), a line that creates further realms, further mysteries that overstep the continuum and open up new fissures. Ciguri is a film for explorers.

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Ciguri Aztec Hades

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