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Spirit Song of the Desert
A unique Feature Length Documentary Film
from David P. Crews
A Journey
from the Amazon Jungle
through the
Great Deserts
of the
American West,
In Search of a Magic Song
A unique new feature-length film experience from
multi-international award-winning filmmaker David P. Crews.
A Philosophical, Poetic, and Musical Journey to
find a Spirit Song of his own.
Spirit Song of the Desert – In Search of a Gift of Music
follows one man’s journey from the magical songs of the Amazon Jungle to the great Deserts of the American West, seeking his own magic Spirit Song to better perceive and explore his connection to nature, time, and life.
Featuring breathtaking landscapes from two continents and a stirring original full symphony score, a poetic and philosophical story unfolds in this moving personal essay from internationally award-winning artist and filmmaker, David P. Crews.
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While encountering and working with some of the most powerful visionary plant medicines in the Amazon Jungle, writer and poet, David P. Crews, was impressed by the shaman’s use of “icaros,” or magical songs, sung during the intense ceremonies as a protection and guiding force in the powerful visionary work. Upon his return home, he sets out to find the gift of a special magical song for his own spiritual use as he journeys through the grand landscapes of all of the deserts of the American West, looking for that hidden melody or song of nature that may inspire his writing, and open the doors of perception to other realities.
Within these vast and seemingly timeless landscapes, contemplations of the nature of life and time itself guides him to seek answers, or gain a glimpse of the ineffable.
His search leads him to a healing and deeper connection with and love for these landscapes, and also with the ancient pictographs, the desert artwork of those who lived here thousands of years before. Drumming in the night in a special ceremonial place, he explores connections with the moon and the stars and the many forms of life on this special planet. Will they respond? Will he find a way to process and understand his place in time as he perceives his own years passing?
He beholds the natural wonders in front of his eyes as a new kind of peace is revealed. And, so he stands, “Looking. Looking. Breathlessly.”*
* [Carlos Castaneda: The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge”]
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My films are somewhat different than almost any others. So much so, that it is difficult to accurately classify them.
My films are visual and musical feasts that are necessarily classified as Documentaries,
but they are truly Personal Essays, with my writings about the great deserts and other environments, exploring the meaning of our connections
to nature in these magnificent landscapes, and philosophical musings and insights into the big themes of “the nature of Time,” and “the meaning of Life.”
In my features, I take the viewer with me, at my side, along a journey into a highly crafted presentation
comprised of five specific things, all mixed together into a seamless finished experience. Those five components are:
• Philosophy, in observations about nature, the world, and insights into life.
• Poetry, in the form of actual poems.
• Poetic Prose, where the script itself is truly just one long and engaging poem.
• Music Scoring and Performance in an emotionally engaging and romantic lyrical style,
and, inspirational and alluring
• Cinematography of natural landscapes and environments.
In my particular work, that often focuses on the grand desert landscapes of the American West.
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"My intention, then, was to sing this song. Relate this story. Speak these poems.
Take others with me on this journey and, perhaps, inspire or teach or show an
open doorway that may otherwise remain unseen.
If nothing else, I hope to inspire people with that incredible and fragile landscape of
the high desert with all its amazing formations and its senses of vast space and infinite time."
– David P. Crews
I believe that films can inspire and heal.
I offer something peaceful, beautiful, and thought provoking, that can be a help and a comfort in these challenging times –
visions of nature and our place within it that can take us above all the noise and anxiety that besets us at present.
I invite you to join me on these adventures through the great deserts of the American West and even into the magical worlds of
the tribal Amazon Jungle where sacred work in consciousness and inner healing is practiced every day.
There, I encountered powerful and truly magical Spirit Songs that inspired me to discover one for myself, out in the vast and inspiring deserts!
–David
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Through engaging narrative, photography, poetry, animation, and with a philosophical view of his own place in the cosmos, David P. Crews explores the many ways the desert affects him as he leads us into magical and sublime sanctuaries within these spectacular places on planet Earth.
This stunning visual journey is enhanced with another “character” in the story: David’s full symphony music score. He has received more than a dozen awards from around the world for his past documentary and nature film scores, including Best Original Score and Best Composer. The 85 minutes of lyrical and emotional music for this film features the BBC Symphony Orchestra-Pro from London's Spitfire Audio, and was composed, performed, and recorded at David's JaguarFeather Studios in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
- Joseph Campbell
Myths to Live By
- REVIEW from the
Berlin New Wave Film Festival
(Winner: Best Nature Film 2024)
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