Film | Almost Visible
We are privileged to be able to be the first to show some excerpts of this yet-to-be-released work-in-progress by filmmaker Klea McKenna, which tracks the story of an unlikely 25-year friendship between American ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison and an indigenous Mazatec shaman in the mountains of southern Mexico. What began as fieldwork became a deep entanglement of two families during an era of cultural upheaval. Introduced by Klea McKenna and Kathleen Harrison.
Showcase Theater
October 19th | 7:10 pm to 7:35 pm
Panelists
Klea McKenna
Photographer and Videographer
IN THE MAKE
Klea McKenna is a visual artist based in San Francisco whose photographs have been shown and collected by SFMOMA, LACMA, Datz Musum of Art in South Korea, The Hecksher Museum in NY, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. From 2011-2015 she was photographer and videographer for IN THE MAKE. She is the daughter of renegade ethnobotanists Kathleen Harrison and Terence McKenna.Kathleen Harrison
Co-founder and President
Botanical Dimensions
Kathleen Harrison, renowned ethnobotanist and educator, has done extensive fieldwork among Indigenous cultures since the 1970s, specializing in studying plants and fungi used in ritual, healing and art, including traditional psychoactive species and their lore. Co-founder of the non-profit, Botanical Dimensions, and Director of its Ethnobotany Library in Occidental, California, Kat’s fieldwork includes a long relationship with Mazatec healers in Mexico that her daughter, artist/filmmaker Klea McKenna, is making a film about.
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