Interview Clips from the Last Ghost Dancer

First Interview: Sidney Hasnohorses Introduction

Interview Clips: Peyote, Spiritual Doubt, Family Conflict, and Indigenous Way of Life

 

Interview Clips – Medicine Man: Consciousness in the Plant and Animal Nations

Interview Clips, Lakota Medicine Man: Spirit Travel and visitations from the World Behind his One

Interview Clips: Kitchen Table Talks – Hunting, Humor, & Hallucinogens

Interview Clips – Lakota Medicine Man Reveals both his Sordid and Profoundly Spiritual Past

Interview Clip : Professor Dale Stover on Lakota Religious Identity & cultural conflicts.

Interview Clips: Peyote, Spiritual Doubt, Family Conflict, and Indigenous Way of Life

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From the Pine Ridge Reservation, to Kickstarter, & Antarctica: An Odyssey of Indie-Documentary Filmmaking.

What began as a character study of a complicated, mystical, Oglala Lakota Medicine Man became a “slow-motion collision between ancient and modern minds.” 

Six years ago the filmmakers were granted an  interview for a short educational film. We never thought it would leed to performing the Vision Quest and Sun Dance Ceremonies for four-years.

But the ancient rituals of suffering, prayer, and gratitude added several layers of depth and intensity to the overall experience,  becoming a six-year long exploration of an ancient religion surviving the modern age.

And Medicine Man, Sidney Hasnohorses, never spared the gory details about growing up in one of the poorest, most violent counties in the country. He was brutally honest about his own past, openly revealing character flaws and inter-generational trauma.

But this documentary was an unlikely occurrence, the director, Salvatore Consalvi, was hip deep in another documentary, Deep Field Antarctica, about the remote and isolated experience managing field camps in the highest, driest, loneliest place on earth. For a time, he entertained finishing both projects at once. Yet returning exhausted from a hot water drill camp on the glacier tongue of Pine Island Glacier to performing the most rigorous Lakota rituals that included fasting and traditional flesh offerings proved too much.

Now, the experience has progressed from the spiritual identity of one religious leader to a deeper understanding of mind and consciousness, one consistent with many earth-based religions, and translatable to many modern-minds. And the filmmakers are deep into a Kickstarter Campaign that will fund post-production and tell this story of Ancient Wisdom, Modern Torment, Quantum Consciousness, and a Link to the Spirit World.

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History of the Documentary in Progress: First Interview

History of the Documentary in Progress:

Sidney HasNoHorse (link website) is a authentic, modern-day medicine man. He is genuine, spiritual and yet tragically complicated.

The night of the first interview, the filmmakers (link bio page on website) were stunned on many levels. And we continue to unravel the meaning beneath the legends, rituals, and ceremonies still holding together an indigenous mind and its earth-religion.

Upon walking into the crowded kitchen for the first time, there was almost an immediate tearing apart of perceptions, expectations, and cultural morays. An innately mystical mood hung over the house and grounds as the circle prepared for ceremony. And, for reasons that would take years to understand, there was also an intense anticipation of imminent violence.

Heyoka: Original Painting by Sidney Hasnohorse

That modern anxiety, however would diminish behind a thick and mystical mood as the ceremonial mind was building before our eyes.

The first hour-long interview (http://youtu.be/WLAF2aAfkzA) was honest, extemporaneous, and rich in culture and spirituality. To the sound of dogs wailing, and wind howling through the plywood shacks, we sacrificed tobacco to the fire and asked the Ancestors for permission to learn from their Medicine Man; aspects of the Lakota mind and spirit few people ever experience.

In that way, an authentic medicine man with ties to the most powerful warriors and healers of the colonial age began to emerge before our eyes. And he spoke in traditional cadence and stentorian tone giving us a powerful interview that most filmmakers wait a lifetime to experience.

We knew we had a fascinating character study of a powerful indigenous person at a critical point in our shared history (#SageRope) ; and in the life cycle of our shared environment.

At this point in the relationship between filmmaker and Medicine Man, we sit around that same kitchen table and discuss how the language of quantum physics (#QuantumIndian) fits well with the Lakota Legends and worldview.

Sidney Hasnohorse: Bare Butte Interview – Sillouette

When we meet this fall I will confirm that Sidney approves the hashtag, #QuantumIndian, to organize the tweets and posts dealing with cosmology and consciousness.

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Salvatore Consalvi and Brigitte Timmerma

Salvatore Consalvi and Brigitte Timmerman are the primary Filmmakers on the Documentary in Progress Sidney Has No Horses: Oglala Lakota Medicine Man.

Over four years ago they met Sidney and a small, relatively unknown group of traditional Oglala Lakota people in South Dakota.

From the beginning, they were amazed to learn that Sidney has direct spiritual ties to some of the most famous Warriors and Holy Men of the last 2 centuries.

So they were soon immersed in Sidney’s teachings, in their own research, and in the Four-Main Ceremonies themselves.

This first interview was intense and began a journey into the indigenous world-view.

Please enjoy the trailer . . .

http://ow.ly/BbiZu http://ow.ly/i/6NGrB

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Playing with our Images

After five years from first meeting and interviewing Sidney Hasnohorse, we will begin populating the blog with images and graphics generated from the Documentary in Progress.

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First Blog Post for Sidney Has No Horses

You have found the first Blog Post from Salvatore Consalvi, Director of the ‘Documentary in Progress’ Sidney Has No Horses: Oglala Lakota Medicine Man.

The project is a continuing investigation (five years and counting) of the Wakpamni Lake Oglala Lakota Ceremony Circle led by the authentic, controversial, if not iconic, Medicine Man, Sidney Has No Horses.

These blog-posts, associated tweets, Facebook posts, newsletters, and YouTube uploads will tell the story of a Lakota lineage of medicine men and warriors leading up to our discovery of Sidney. It will describe his brutally authentic ceremonies. It will portray an unbroken cultural lineage that maintains an extremely mystical Earth-based religion and the indigenous mind that has survived the corporate age.

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