The Little will screen Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia / Venezuela / Argentina, U.S. 2015, 125 min.) as part of the O-some! An Oscilloscope Retrospective series.

At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in Embrace Of The Serpent, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, Serpent centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.

[source: Little Theatre calendar, 2018-Feb-5]