Plant_Intelligence
Titel
The Devil's Breath
Datum
2025
Inventarnummer
#zotero2-2641719.RJ6V9PDT
Autor/en
Abstract
The film touches on the ethnomedicinal practices of the Kamnësnta people living in the Colombian-Amazon region, who still maintain a close relation to a potent plant from the Burgmansia family. Locally known as Borrachero Andaki, the toxicity of this plant has rendered it as a deadly and divine being at once. Ingesting -or even smelling it- can cause severe hallucinations and temporary loss of memory. Nevertheless, this plant is revered among the shamans for enabling those who take it to anticipate the future, not through visions but through feeling.
Notes

Cast: Ayënan Quinchoa Juajibioy,  Taita Miguel Chicunque and Heraldo Vallejo. Camera and editing: Felipe Castelblanco

Voice: Syntetic Voice inspired and modulated based on the tone of traditional Siona storytellers, such as Taita Aristides Piaguaje.

Additional funding form: Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg and Stiftung Niedersachsen.

Institutional crdits:

A film Felipe Castelblanco, realized in the framework of the research project Plants_ Intelligence. Learning like a Plant (2022 - 2025). A research project by Yvonne Volkart, Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch and Rasa Smite. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted by the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Co-commissioned by the Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg and supported by Stiftung Niedersachsen.

Equipment specifications: 85 inch monitor placed on vertical position

Metadata
SeriesTitle Tunda: A Quantic Plant and the Devil’s Breath
DateAdded 2026-02-02T08:51:12Z
DateModified 2026-03-02T09:33:01Z
Rights This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Language Spanish, EN and GE subtitles, GE transcription
Key RJ6V9PDT
RunningTime 00:06:30