Mandragora officinarum

Mandragora Officinarum by director and visualist Tiago Pereira is a live video performance based on the fusion of religion xamanism and alternative medicine concepts It unveils different fields of knowledge such as ethnohistory ethnolinguistics and ethnobotanic reinforcing the value of oral narratives music and rituals in society This postcinematic event gathers samples of contemporary music and field recording on collective memory that deeps in dynamic and unconventional aspects of culture The descriptions collected on popular beliefs botanic and their contradictions with science and religion are put together with musical narratives aiming at new strings of creative thought that instigate and renovate todays identity process