Conceived as a form of horizontal spirituality, rooted in the Earth and the ancestral wisdom it carries, this short film shares a subjective sensory experience of shamanic journeys to the frontiers of the visible and the invisible, explored through shamanism, trance, and dance alongside Karine La Main Bienveillante, shaman and therapist.

Through an experimental audiovisual approach, the film immerses the viewer in altered states of consciousness, where body and psyche enter a space of transformation rather than escape. Sensory perception is heightened, allowing intuitive forms of knowledge to surface and reconfiguring the relationship between inner experience and the surrounding world.

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By unfolding these inner landscapes on screen, the work fosters an intensified sense of presence and connection. The boundaries between self, body, and environment gradually dissolve, revealing a state of communion with the living world, one grounded in embodiment, attention, and shared vibration.

BEYOND thus proposes a grounded experience of transcendence, where spirituality is not vertical or abstract, but lived through the body, the Earth, and the subtle forces that bind them together.

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Directed by Tiffany McSwaker

Music credits: øneheart x reidenshi - snowfall