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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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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