29 Jul 2017

Paul Wolffram - Initiation into a shaman cult

From Saturday Morning, 10:30 am on 29 July 2017

Ethnographer and filmmaker Paul Wolffram spent two years living with the Lak people in the rainforests of southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, for his earlier documentary, Stori Tumbuna. In his new film, What Lies That Way, Wolffram aims to take his cultural understanding to a spiritual level by going bush for an initiation process into the Lak's Buai shaman cult. In a remote part of the forest he is left to fast without food and water, assisted by an elderly sorcerer who assures him that things will get tough - but he won't die. What Lies That Way is screening at the NZ International Film Festival. https://www.nziff.co.nz/2017/ https://whatliesthatway.com/ @nzff