We all possess a huge number of potential film sequences that coexist in a compact space and time. These sequences are interchangeable and superimposed one on the other. All these films are sleeping within us. An ordinary narrative movie provides a vast environment in which these potential film sequences disperse and vanish. A shamanic film, on the other hand, would be more like a land mine: it explodes among these potential films and sometimes provokes chain reactions, allowing other events to come into being. […] This mechanism is the first step in a process which could permit us to pass from our own world into the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, even to the stars, before returning to humanity again. All of this, of course, is but a short summary of a poetic system, but it should be enough to help us to find a way of filming a million miles away from conventional narrative cinema.”
Raúl Ruiz
