Deep-States, Spring Cleaning, Rough Edits, & the Prairie-Ice: Content Taxonomy

This spring, Prairie-Ice Production entered a deep-state of self-organization. Last year we added the Subtitle, “Deep Access” to reflect the intensity and motivation for both Prairie-Ice Documentaries. We also reorganized financially and eliminated the debt that accumulated from 8-years of self-funded and in-kind production. Nearly 20 trips to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota added up to quite a significant problem. Glad to be done with servicing that debt.

So this spring we are excited to turn our focus to the Rough-Edit of the documentary about Lakota Spiritual Ecology & Religious Identity (So Rough I’m calling this ‘Director’s’ Cut a Gross Edit). And the Documentary, Deep Field Antarctica, about Remote Field Work and Isolated Landscape meditations is never far from thought. The media-prep for six intense seasons is ongoing.

In other words it’s full time on the Prairie documentary about Lakota (Sioux) Medicine Man, Sidney Hasnohorses; while preparing the Ice-Media for Deep Field Antarctica.

We’ll be posting teasers and relevant threads from both intense Cultures and Landscape right here from both Deep Access Documentaries.

The process of organizing the media is proving to be a rich and intense experience all it’s own. The four-direction prayers, poetry, and essays that sprang from my attempt to “Live” an authentic, native religion will augment and tie the narrative together.

Journal entries on the rituals, ceremonies, and morning prayers will establish the motivation behind the 8-year-long immersion.

Reflections on life, humanity, trauma, ethnicity, ecology, quantum field theory, consciousness and the brutality of modern civilization . . . continue to surprise and inform.

The documentary narrative is revealing the interconnectivity of all living things in the language of oneness, wisdom-keepers, and quantum consciousness. In other words, the edit is becoming an experience of its own within oure space-time river of life and quantum consciousness.

Inevitably, before your eyes, all projects will self-organize on this Blog. A relational database of content  has been designed. This very site is becoming a taxonomy of potential human experiences organizing decades of creative and investigative projects. It will serve as the publishing engine for all future Prairie-Ice projects.

In short, the first documentary will portray the religious identity and spiritual ecology that led me to the grueling Lakota rituals and a deeper understanding of the tribal mind. The profound ceremonies still strong in the North American cultural landscape this attempt to live an ancient, natural religion became a Slow-Motion “Collision between Ancient & Modern Minds”.

So a “walk around the medicine wheel”  guided by and authentic Medicine Man is becoming an experiential documentary floating on the River-of-Life & quantum consciousness.

My thanks to Sidney Hasnohorses for overcoming his personal struggle and revealing the ancient medicine-wheel to this modern-mind; for preserving and guiding an ancient, Oglala Religion; and for putting up with a decade of incessant questions.

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Fall Hunt

Sidney Hasnohorses Hunting

Salvatore Stalking the Hunters

 

 

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Deep Access Documentaries: Year End Accomplishments, Updates, & Plans

Hello,

Welcome back to the Prairie-Ice Newsletter. To jog your memory, we’ve been developing two documentaries . . .

By the time both are finalized I will have spent 20-years immersed in extreme landscapes and intense cultures.   

Many are fascinated yet very few ever gain access to the landscapes of Antarctica or Native Cultures in their backyards.

The name Prairie-Ice represents both projects. But in 2017 we added the subtitle, “Deep Access” to reflect the source and motivation behind both films.

Developing before your eyes – Chronicled in the Director’s Blog: 

1:  The primary Documentary about an  Oglala Lakota Medicine Man explores his ancient culture and modern struggle to “live” an indigenous religion & spiritual ecology. 

2:   Deep Field Antarctica documents a 9 seasons experience of the most Remote & Isolated field camps in the world. 

In both cases, Prairie-Ice filmmakers maintained Deep Access for over a decade. 

On a personal level, the Director used both experiences to explore:

• Meaning in a Modern Civilizations,

• Spiritual Ecology, and

• Quantum Consciousness.

In 2018, this blog will become the release valve for many ancillary projects such as the “Ritual Poetry Project”, and “Thirty Years of Garbage in Nature”.

We will entangle a lifetime of poetry, essays, photography and video right here on this blog.

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So . . . . .

Look through the blog above for our history and insights.

Look below for last year’s accomplishments and next year’s plans.

And look around for the social media and Newsletter links of your choice.

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Looking Back – 2017

Salvatore Consalvi: Prairie-Ice Director-Producer

In 2017 we redefined the production vehicle for both documentaries. We are now “Prairie-Ice: Deep-Access Documentaries”.

The Prairie-Ice moniker always reflected both Landscapes & Cultures. But the new subtitle reflects commonalities between subjects and the motivation behind the filmmakers.

The first to be completed will be an  8-years investigation of an authentic, Lakota (Sioux) Medicine Man that led to 6-years engaged in his intense, often grueling, ceremonies.

The second sprang from 9-season in Antarctica documenting the most remote and isolated Deep-Field Camps on the planet.

Hit the Links for the many ways to follow our progress and

Look below to learn when you will be able to see the work.

https://www.facebook.com/documentaryinprogress/

 

LOOKING FORWARD – 2018

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Salvatore Consalvi
Director-Producer

Gross Edit: We’re going in hard in 2018 . . .

Without getting too personal, in 2017; we (I) consulted and Uber/Lyfted out of debt and raised enough for the “Gross-Edit” (Thanks to the Birthday Fundraiser).

This first/ gross edit is the director’s cut. from that conceptual edit we’ll develop a rough narrative. From there we polish, refine, and augment the narrative. We do the same for audio and ancillary visuals  . . . adding  animation if we can afford it.

It’s a very exciting time!

The Director will:
1]   Re-watch and relive all 70-hours of interviews.
2]   Assemble clips into a narrative structure.
3]   Reveal Ancient Wisdom & Modern Trauma.

We’ll organize the disparate concepts of native culture, spirituality, intergenerational trauma, and consciousness into 4 narratives resembling 4 prayer-rounds. In the first 4-chapters will become a journey around Sundance Tree. The next two chapters will represent the third demention; we will touch Grandmother Earth and reach up to Granthfather Sky in thanks. The last Chapter will look beyond to Wakan Tanka – The Great Mystery.

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Other Projects in 2018 :

 

1. A push to grow our social media family in preparation for . . .
2. A crowdfunding effort this spring or summer (IndiGoGo, perhaps Seed & Spark).
3. Continued efforts to self-fund the Rough/Gross Edit.
4. Completing the Gross Edit myself.
5. Fund the Rough Edit and
6. Assembling the team to execute the Rough & Final edits.

Yes, we have a lot on our plate . . .

Documentary Trailer: The Last Ghost Dancer
https://youtu.be/mayw3Q25ezo

Newsletter: Prairie-Ice – Deep Access Documentaries
http://eepurl.com/deBMWr

Website: Sidney Has No Horses – The Last Ghost Dancer 

http://sidneyhasnohorsesthemovie.com

Facebook – Prairie: The Last Ghost Dancer
http://facebook.com/documentaryinprogress

Facebook – Ice: Deep Field Antarctica           

https://facebook.com/deepfieldantarctica/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DocHasNoHorse

 Prairie-Ice Deep Access Graphics

Adele Penguins, Humans, & Mt Erebus, Antarctica

 

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Documentary Still In Progress: After a short break that is . . .

After returning from a great trip to Portland and Seattle I was drawn into some much needed Environmental Consulting work.

As a result, I’ve been very lax with the #SocialMedia projects begun after the Digital Professional Institute classwork, but plan to get back up and running.

I have not stopped work on the project however and though I do not consider the reading I do to be strictly “research”, I have continued  to find and read fantastic books from dedicated scholars that will no doubt influence the final edit of the film.

The latest is “American Holocaust” by David Stannard. In painting an accurate, well researched picture of the cultural landscape Europeans found when they arrived, and the practices they employed against them, I can better explore and understand the concept of #intergenerational trauma.

When finished I will return to more spiritual topics with Sacred Language by  William Powers and “The Ghost Dance Religion” by James Mooney; but for now the truth of our greatest cultural horror; honestly and professionally presented by an exceptional scholar; has begun to affect my thoughts and dreams concerning this #Documentary project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stannard

American Holocaust: Wikapedia

Stannard’s research on the indigenous peoples of North and South America (including Hawaii)^[1] has produced the conclusion that Native Americans had undergone the “worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries and consuming the lives of countless tens of millions of people.

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Year-End Overview: Documentary In Progress; Sidney Has No Horses

Year-End Overview: Documentary In Progress; Sidney Has No Horses

Over the years many of you, our strongest supporters, have openly asked, “When can I see the final film?” or “What will it take to finish this documentary?”

Crew at Work

So in the next series of posts, leading to the years end, we will lay out the Project History from the first interview to this very moment on the timeline. Interwoven into those posts, we will lay out our production and post-production schedules for 2015.

So in short, after the 2014 Ghost Dance in July, we spent 4-months in classes and workshops at Digital Professional Institute, associated with iconic Tribeca Academy. We learned to establish the social media platforms necessary to build an audience and fundraise.

We are now planning how to best use 2015. We’ve pulled more support from our community of artists and professionals in the form of graphic designer, Lynn Pearson, Producer Bruce Scivally, and promoter Sandra Bogan to bring this project to its completion. So the lion-share of 2015 will be spent in post production; weaving the narrative from interviews, research, sound, animation, and music into a powerful and beautiful film; one worthy of the Lakota lineage of medicine men, and you, our strongest supporters.

We intend to lay out just how we intend to bring this feature-length documentary to a screening venue near you.

Silhouette Crew at Work – Lens Flair

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About the Digital Professional Institute DPI: Social Media Specialist

I’ve mentioned the Class I took at DPI through Tribeca Flashpoint several times now in blog posts and the November Newsletter. It has become part of the history of this Documentary in Progress. So here is a little more about the class for our timeline; and thanks to all the great instructors who continue to guide us.

Salvatore Consalvi; Director, Sidney Has No Horses

 

About the Digital Professional Institute

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