‘Embrace of the Serpent’: Reflections on race and cultural colonialism in the Americas

By Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada Ciro Guerra’s film ‘Embrace of the Serpent’ was released in the UK in June. Cannes winner, and Oscars nominee, this atmospheric, fine-grained, black and white film narrates the encounter of Karamakate, a ‘Native’ shaman and ‘the last of his Amazonian tribe’, with Theo, a German ethnologist, and Evans, a […]