The Film
The Eternal Song
Ancestral Wisdom for Collective Healing
The Eternal Song is a cinematic journey through timeless lands and their Indigenous cultures. Voices from around the world and across generations call us to witness the deep, ongoing scars of colonization on lands and peoples, and the healing that comes through ancestral wisdom. Entrusted with medicine stories, we grapple with colonial legacies, intergenerational trauma, our own fragmentation and culture of separation.
The film reveals how modernity severs our connection to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm, while feeding us empty promises of salvation, unlimited consumption, and individual happiness. As we are drawn into the intricate web of kinship and honoring the living presence of Mother Earth, we awaken a remembrance. A sacred dance comes to life and we begin to hear the eternal song of Life itself, calling us back to belonging.
The Collection
For tens of thousands of years, indigenous peoples were in deep kinship with the natural world while stewarding ancestral land and wisdom. Through the narratives of colonialism, capitalism, and individualism, our “modern” Western mindset has cast a collective fog of amnesia, and lead us into believing that we are separate from the Earth, each other, and the ancestral realm. In May of 2022, our small film crew began traveling and exploring the devastating impact of colonization on indigenous people and lands, and cultures. What started as a single film, The Eternal Song, organically evolved into a larger project encompassing twelve additional feature-length documentaries, honoring the unique story of each indigenous community we visited.
Each community shared its journey of healing intergenerational trauma while preserving its culture, language, and ceremonies which remain rooted in a profound relationship to land and ancestral wisdom. They all reminded us that our collective future depends on remembering our kinship with Mother Earth and listening to the eternal song of existence which calls us back to our original sense of belonging.
