Hands of the Wind (2022)
What is the embodied experience of a shamanic ritual? How does it feel? What happens?
'Hands of the Wind' dives into the practice of shamanism in Oldenzaal and lets you experience a shamanic healing ritual guided by Martin Adolfsen, a Dutch Mongolian shaman.
The nature of a healing ritual can be intimate and intense, as a client undergoes a series of healings for personal traumas and connects with the shaman on a spiritual level. This short film makes use of an 8D auditory soundscape for a fully emerged experience, see and hear for yourself what journey lies ahead of you.
Disclaimer 1
8D audio works only with headset headphones, not with in-ear headphones. So please use headset headphones while watching!
Disclaimer 2
In this short film, you as the viewer, are asked to close your eyes. When the first rattle is over you can open your eyes again. This is for an immersive effect and is totally optional. You can leave your eyes open if that is more comfortable, you will see a black screen.
About the ‘Hands of the Wind’ Project
For this film project Dante, Anne, Xanthe, and Mai-Lu are diving into the practice of shamanism. A few years ago, Martin started his own healing practice in his backyard at home.
He has told them that the realm of spirituality involved in shamanism is nearly impossible to describe with words, as its meaning derives mainly from emotions. Therefore, while they use words as an attempt to talk about the spiritual world, it is important to keep in mind that its cultural understanding is more profound than that.
‘Hands of the Wind’ was produced by Dante Cornille, Anne Pronk, Xanthe Wijzenbroek, and Mai-Lu Ensink in 2022 as part of a Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) project at Leiden University.
