SCHAMANEN IM BLINDEN LAND - SHAMANS OF THE BLIND COUNTRY

SCHAMANEN IM BLINDEN LAND
1978-1980

Director: Michael Oppitz

Shamans of the Blind Country is an epic documentary on faith healing in a remote region of North West Nepal. Over a period of eighteen months the film follows the basic traits of a local religious practice, kindred in spirit to the many variations of the great inner-Asian tradition of shamanism characteristic for the Siberian part of Northern Asia and the entire Himalayan region. Part I pursues the various types of healing rituals enacted by the shamans of the northern Magar of the Dhaulagiri region (in North West Nepal) for the benefi t of their clients. Part II of the film is focussed mainly on the transmission of shamanic knowledge from master to pupil. This is a long process of increasing intensity. 
Including extensive bonus features:

Film extras:
Ritual Journey
A film by Michael Oppitz & Mehdi Sahebi 2013
Part I: To the waters of oblivion
Part II: Into the underworld

Heli to the Beyond - A bird’s eye view on a shamanic journey
A film by Mehdi Sahebi & Michael Oppitz 2013

Maya chanting
A film by Jörg Jeshel nachtaktivfilm 2007

The End of a Show – Exhibition on shamanic drums at Ethnographic Museum Zurich
A film by Mehdi Sahebi 2008

Three mythical chants by Bal Bahãdur & Bedh Bahãdur on 2 Audio CDs:
Somarani: story of an unhappy alliance between heaven and earth ending in a cataclysm
Hargameni: story of the second creation of mankind and death in childbirth
Kubiram: story of a neglected child turned into a bird, origin of premature death