22 minutes that'll make your soul do backflips — no giraffes were harmed, but boundaries were shattered.
Men and women of the !Kung people in Ojokhoe, Namibia perform healing dances by firelight. First we see men perform the giraffe dance, and then women perform the !gwa dance.
Direction
Keeney disappears completely — just you, fire, and transcendence.
Sound
The singing will hijack your nervous system. Surrender.
Cinematography
Firelight as character, shadow as language.
Director
Bradford Keeney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The !Kung are among the last practicing hunter-gatherers maintaining these trance-dance traditions; this footage documents endangered embodied knowledge.
Bradford Keeney was initiated as a shaman by the !Kung — he didn't just film this, he was trembling alongside them.
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