Jiíbie, 2019, 25 minutes

The elaboration ritual of a green coca powder (called mambe or “Jiíbie”) unveils an ancestral myth of kinship. In the Muiná-Muruí amazonian community, the coca plant is not a product, but a sacred interlocutor, the beating heart of a collective body.

Laura Huertas Millán is an artist, filmmaker, and writer from Colombia, based in France. She holds a PhD from PSL University (SACRe program) developed at the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Harvard University). More than twenty film retrospectives of her work have been held internationally.