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A Ritual of Connection, Devastation, and Spiritual and Ecological Rebirth

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CURA: A Sensory Ritual for a Disconnected World

A Ritual in the Forest.
A Mind Hack in the Dark.

The world's first full-body documentary. Part film, part art installation, part healing ceremony—CURA is a multi-sensory experience co-created with Indigenous guardian tribes across Colombia and Brazil. Approaching cinema as healing ritual, it dissolves the boundary between audience and subject—replacing narration with vibration, facts with feeling.

THE PARADOX

In the Amazon, the same forest that draws seekers in search of healing is being consumed by fire, extraction, and loss. This is the paradox at the heart of CURA: What does it mean to seek healing from a place we are destroying?


CURA does not explain this question; it enacts it. Through the architecture of experience—sound, vibration, and image—the work mirrors the forest’s own rhythm of destruction and renewal, despair and resilience. There are no talking heads, no narration, no analysis. The film unfolds as ceremony, guiding viewers through the forest’s shadow and back toward its light.


The result is not information but resonance. The forest becomes the teacher, and the act of witnessing becomes a form of healing.

In the Amazon, the same forest that draws seekers in search of healing is being consumed by fire, extraction, and loss. This is the paradox at the heart of CURA: What does it mean to seek healing from a place we are destroying?


CURA does not explain this question; it enacts it. Through the architecture of experience—sound, vibration, and image—the work mirrors the forest’s own rhythm of destruction and renewal, despair and resilience. There are no talking heads, no narration, no analysis. The film unfolds as ceremony, guiding viewers through the forest’s shadow and back toward its light.


The result is not information but resonance. The forest becomes the teacher, and the act of witnessing becomes a form of healing.

WHY THIS WORK MATTERS

The Amazon is not only under threat; it is misunderstood. Most documentaries about plant medicine focus on the extraordinary healing potential of Indigenous wisdom yet overlook the existential crisis facing the very cultures that sustain it.

Much of today’s climate storytelling leans on data, urgency, or fear—strategies that often overwhelm more than they inspire. CURA offers another way.


Through deep collaboration with Indigenous artists and communities, CURA opens a ceremonial space where personal healing and planetary survival are inseparable. It reminds us that the forest’s medicine is not a resource to be consumed but a relationship to be tended.

This is neither a traditional documentary nor video art. It is a work of ritual cinema that you enter, built to bypass explanation and awaken memory through sensation. In a time defined by ecological grief and disconnection, CURA reminds us that healing the forest and healing ourselves are one and the same.

The Amazon is not only under threat; it is misunderstood. Most documentaries about plant medicine focus on the extraordinary healing potential of Indigenous wisdom yet overlook the existential crisis facing the very cultures that sustain it.

Much of today’s climate storytelling leans on data, urgency, or fear—strategies that often overwhelm more than they inspire. CURA offers another way.


Through deep collaboration with Indigenous artists and communities, CURA opens a ceremonial space where personal healing and planetary survival are inseparable. It reminds us that the forest’s medicine is not a resource to be consumed but a relationship to be tended.

This is neither a traditional documentary nor video art. It is a work of ritual cinema that you enter, built to bypass explanation and awaken memory through sensation. In a time defined by ecological grief and disconnection, CURA reminds us that healing the forest and healing ourselves are one and the same.

THE Cura Experience

THE Cura Experience

Flagship Installation

Flagship Installation

CURA is a full-body, multi-sensory installation where film, architecture, and sound merge into a single ceremonial experience.

Visitors enter a circular maloca, a hand-crafted vessel inspired by Amazonian ceremonial design, and follow a slow, spiraling intention walk guided by subtle sound, scent, and vibration.


At the center lies a geodesic dome where a 360-degree projection brings the forest to life all around you. The space hums with the sound of a living ecosystem, dense with presence and life. Reclining on a shared tensile hammock beneath a hovering screen, you are enveloped by the forest’s breath as sound and vibration move through the body. The air shifts as the rhythm of a healer’s chacapa rises through the space, calling you toward ceremony.


As night deepens, the vision begins: a nonverbal cinematic ritual unfolding in four movements: Shadow, Pulse, Spirit, and Return. Frequencies tuned to the rhythms of breath and heartbeat travel through the hammock’s woven fibers, aligning the body with the forest’s own pulse. CURA isn’t a film you watch; it’s a ceremony you enter.

CURA is a full-body, multi-sensory installation where film, architecture, and sound merge into a single ceremonial experience.

Visitors enter a circular maloca, a hand-crafted vessel inspired by Amazonian ceremonial design, and follow a slow, spiraling intention walk guided by subtle sound, scent, and vibration.


At the center lies a geodesic dome where a 360-degree projection brings the forest to life all around you. The space hums with the sound of a living ecosystem, dense with presence and life. Reclining on a shared tensile hammock beneath a hovering screen, you are enveloped by the forest’s breath as sound and vibration move through the body. The air shifts as the rhythm of a healer’s chacapa rises through the space, calling you toward ceremony.


As night deepens, the vision begins: a nonverbal cinematic ritual unfolding in four movements: Shadow, Pulse, Spirit, and Return. Frequencies tuned to the rhythms of breath and heartbeat travel through the hammock’s woven fibers, aligning the body with the forest’s own pulse. CURA isn’t a film you watch; it’s a ceremony you enter.

CURA is a full-body, multi-sensory installation where film, architecture, and sound merge into a single ceremonial experience.

Visitors enter a circular maloca, a hand-crafted vessel inspired by Amazonian ceremonial design, and follow a slow, spiraling intention walk guided by subtle sound, scent, and vibration.


At the center lies a geodesic dome where a 360-degree projection brings the forest to life all around you. The space hums with the sound of a living ecosystem, dense with presence and life. Reclining on a shared tensile hammock beneath a hovering screen, you are enveloped by the forest’s breath as sound and vibration move through the body. The air shifts as the rhythm of a healer’s chacapa rises through the space, calling you toward ceremony.


As night deepens, the vision begins: a nonverbal cinematic ritual unfolding in four movements: Shadow, Pulse, Spirit, and Return. Frequencies tuned to the rhythms of breath and heartbeat travel through the hammock’s woven fibers, aligning the body with the forest’s own pulse. CURA isn’t a film you watch; it’s a ceremony you enter.

Collectible Digital Editions

Collectible Digital Editions

CURA also lives beyond the installation as immersive digital editions featuring 4K visual fidelity and binaural sound. Each edition is uniquely certified and distributed through our peer-to-peer app, extending the experience to a global audience while allowing those who experience CURA in person to bring it home.

Half of our proceeds are shared directly with Indigenous collaborators, supporting community-led conservation, healing, and cultural initiatives. In this way, CURA functions as both artwork and ecosystem: a circle of reciprocity encoded into the work itself, connecting collectors, artists, visitors, and the forest’s guardians.

CURA also lives beyond the installation as immersive digital editions featuring 4K visual fidelity and binaural sound. Each edition is uniquely certified and distributed through our peer-to-peer app, extending the experience to a global audience while allowing those who experience CURA in person to bring it home.

Half of our proceeds are shared directly with Indigenous collaborators, supporting community-led conservation, healing, and cultural initiatives. In this way, CURA functions as both artwork and ecosystem: a circle of reciprocity encoded into the work itself, connecting collectors, artists, visitors, and the forest’s guardians.

CURA also lives beyond the installation as immersive digital editions featuring 4K visual fidelity and binaural sound. Each edition is uniquely certified and distributed through our peer-to-peer app, extending the experience to a global audience while allowing those who experience CURA in person to bring it home.

Half of our proceeds are shared directly with Indigenous collaborators, supporting community-led conservation, healing, and cultural initiatives. In this way, CURA functions as both artwork and ecosystem: a circle of reciprocity encoded into the work itself, connecting collectors, artists, visitors, and the forest’s guardians.

the path ahead

Q4 2025

Q4 2025

After a successful Kickstarter campaign, we have begun the final phase of fieldwork—capturing the Amazon in its full spectrum: devastation, biodiversity, and regeneration, where loss and resilience meet. This phase completes the emotional arc of the work and finalizes installation conceptual design and architectural plans.

After a successful Kickstarter campaign, we have begun the final phase of fieldwork—capturing the Amazon in its full spectrum: devastation, biodiversity, and regeneration, where loss and resilience meet. This phase completes the emotional arc of the work and finalizes installation conceptual design and architectural plans.

After a successful Kickstarter campaign, we have begun the final phase of fieldwork—capturing the Amazon in its full spectrum: devastation, biodiversity, and regeneration, where loss and resilience meet. This phase completes the emotional arc of the work and finalizes installation conceptual design and architectural plans.

Q1 2026

Q1 2026

Editing, post-production, installation prototyping, and the initial build.

Editing, post-production, installation prototyping, and the initial build.

Editing, post-production, installation prototyping, and the initial build.

Mid–Late 2026

Mid–Late 2026

Picture lock, sound design, twelve-channel mix, and ceremonial tuning. CURA enters its final form, ready to be shared with the world. We will open our studio for intimate previews of the work-in-progress. These private sessions allow collectors, curators, and commissioners to enter the ceremony before its public debut.

Picture lock, sound design, twelve-channel mix, and ceremonial tuning. CURA enters its final form, ready to be shared with the world. We will open our studio for intimate previews of the work-in-progress. These private sessions allow collectors, curators, and commissioners to enter the ceremony before its public debut.

Picture lock, sound design, twelve-channel mix, and ceremonial tuning. CURA enters its final form, ready to be shared with the world. We will open our studio for intimate previews of the work-in-progress. These private sessions allow collectors, curators, and commissioners to enter the ceremony before its public debut.

Stay Connected to the Journey

Stay Connected to the Journey

Sign up for occasional updates about CURA, future installations, and ways to support the project, the rainforest, and her guardians.

We’re preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign to complete CURA’s final phase— post-production, immersive installation build, and long-term ecological support for our Indigenous collaborators.

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For Curators, Collectors, and Commissioners

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Learn about upcoming availability, edition details, and exhibition opportunities for CURA. Materials include the six-minute concept video, full installation primer, and collector edition overview.


Private viewings and institutional presentations will begin in March 2026, with the first public installation premiere scheduled for late 2026.

REQUEST For MATERIALS

The Collaborators

Mahyad Tousi, Director

Mahyad Tousi, Director

Multidisciplinary artist bridging media and contemporary art, with background spanning conflict-zone documentation across 50 countries to museums to Hollywood. His debut feature REMOTE (2022) premiered at New York Film Festival and Tate Modern, now in permanent collections of major European museums. Born in Portland and raised in Tehran during Iran's revolution and war, Tousi brings profound understanding of cultural transformation and healing. His work explores humanity's connection to nature through innovative documentary media. Executive produced CBS's United States of Al; founded Starfish nonprofit supporting artist-entrepreneurs.

Irazema Vera, Sound Artist/Composer

Irazema Vera, Sound Artist/Composer

Indigenous Peruvian musicologist whose practice bridges territory and community through memory and aurality. Her soundscapes challenge environmental crises through sonic exploration. Her cultural background and artistic expertise are fundamental to CURA's ceremonial approach.

Maria Gabriela Gomes, Producer

Maria Gabriela Gomes, Producer

A daughter of the forest, Maria Gabriela was born and raised in Leticia, Amazonas, and a trilingual filmmaker, journalist, chef, and producer. She has focused on vulnerable populations, social development and cultural preservation with extensive production experience and contacts across the Amazon.

Dominic Musacchio, Producer

Dominic Musacchio, Producer

Seasoned documentarian whose work appears on Netflix, Hulu, BBC, CNN, Discovery, and Vice. Specializes in immersive filmmaking that dissolves cultural boundaries. His international experience provides crucial support for complex Amazon shoots.

Matt Nauser, Cinematographer

Matt Nauser, Cinematographer

An award-winning visual artist and cinematographer of film and TV, including Crows Are White (2022)—whose practice merges narrative techniques with documentary form to expand the boundaries of non-fiction storytelling.

Javier Manzano, Cinematographer

Javier Manzano, Cinematographer

Seven-time Emmy winner with visual language shaped across 50 countries. Recognized with Peabody and two BAFTA nominations. His photojournalistic background brings intimate, unvarnished perspective essential for capturing both beauty and devastation.

Bruno Lasevicius, Editor

Bruno Lasevicius, Editor

Brazilian artist whose decade-long New York practice includes Academy Award-nominated The Edge of Democracy (2020). His dialectic, intuitive approach creates compelling narratives that challenge and inspire.

Jennifer Solorio, Associate PRoducer

Jennifer Solorio, Associate PRoducer

Jennifer Solorio is a Mexican American producer based in New York City. She has worked on several films and series for PBS, VICE, and A&E. She enjoys working on projects that seek answers where answers may not be easily found.

CARLOS ANCALMO, Conceptual designer

CARLOS ANCALMO, Conceptual designer

Concept artist whose visual storytelling has shaped projects for Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, MSG Sphere, Google Events & Experiences, Wired Magazine, The Mill, BBDO, and leading studios such as Psyop and Imaginary Forces.

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CURA was created in sacred collaboration with Indigenous communities of the Amazon. This work-in-progress honors the privacy and cultural integrity of all participants.

CURA was created in sacred collaboration with Indigenous communities of the Amazon. This work-in-progress honors the privacy and cultural integrity of all participants.

© 2025 Mahyad Tousi and Limpia Productions LLC.

© 2025 Mahyad Tousi and Limpia Productions LLC.

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