International Cinema Festival of India

Moving inside the chaos of this planet usually consumes all our strength leaving our soul without the vital force to adapt to this fast pace. Its spiritual nature demands it to slow down once in a while and discover the beauty within things. Actually it is an inherent requisite of each of us.

Man and women go on with their lives inertially, deepening more and more into a void cycle. Earthly problems take over leaving no place for extramundane things like listening to a marvelous music, reading an exquisite poem or watching an interesting movie.

Ordinary people need artists to shape their thoughts into universal elements that can be used in communicating with ourselves and the world. Every piece of art is meant illustrate a meaningful experience or idea that will impress the viewer or reader, appealing to his or her thirst for justice, thought of mercy, need for compassion or desire for joy. Without a subsequent meaning words don’t make a poem, notes don’t make a song and images don’t make a movie, they are only separate elements of something yet unknown. Similar words can be used in different poems, similar notes in different songs or similar images in different movies, without meaning that the different strings of words, notes or images should carry the same message.

Art does for the soul what science does for the body. Similar to shamanism, art tries to fulfill the needs of the soul; with the mention that art is translating the cosmos at a human scale, meanwhile shamanism is trying to bring the soul to a cosmic scale. Alleviating the soul can be difficult considering its transcendent dimension, but shamans are doing that for so long as you can read in Lujan Matus’ work.

Walking through the jungle of the soul without knowing the path is a concern found in every religion, shamanism being usually assimilated with one. Yet notes or words of a profane love poem act the same of a bible guiding you through a storm of feelings up to the final conquest of heaven. Images will start forming into your mind in the same way a producer composes the scenes of a movie.

Referring to the work of Lujan Matus means acquiring more knowledge about shamanism.