CURA: A Tale of Connection, Devastation, and Spiritual and Ecological Rebirth
A cinematic ritual by Mahyad Tousi
About this project:
CURA is a groundbreaking work of ritual cinema that redefines climate storytelling through an immersive, sensory-based experience co-created with Indigenous tribes of the Amazon. This isn’t a film you watch—it’s a ceremony you enter. Audiences recline in a floating hammock beneath a suspended screen, wrapped in a 12-channel soundscape of rainforest and ceremonial chants. Spatial audio and felt vibration pulse through the body—until the forest’s own heartbeat becomes yours.
Born from deep collaboration with the Nomanawa Clan of the Noke Koi and the Cofan of Putumayo, CURA bypasses language and data, speaking instead to the nervous system—awakening embodied memory and ecological kinship. Through vibration, imagery, sound, and ceremony, it reconnects body and forest as one living system.
At a time when climate discourse often paralyzes with despair, CURA offers something vital: a felt experience rooted in Indigenous wisdom—a re-membering that shows healing ourselves and healing the Earth are not separate journeys, but one sacred path.
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