Film & Moving Image
These films came before the maps, and they're part of why the maps exist. The Primordial Powers series started as a direct inquiry into embodiment and elemental relationship. Filming, curating the music, moving through physical landscapes — that process built the perceptual foundation that my counter-cartographic methodology eventually grew from. The body holding the camera was already doing cartographic work. It took a few years to name it that way.
"Never Eat From a Fire You Haven't Fed" is where that thread continues. The documentary is currently in post-production.
Never Eat From a Fire You Haven't Fed Documentary · Currently in Post-Production
A solo desert fire practice. A question about what it means to tend something over time. This film follows one practitioner into the Sonoran Desert to sit with a fire she built herself, fed herself, and stayed with through the night.
It's a film about reciprocity. About the agreement you make with a place when you ask it to hold you. About what liberation looks like when it isn't announced, when it's just a body and a fire and the knowledge of how to keep both alive.
Earthen energies - primordial powers
The second episode in the Primordial Powers series, Earthen Energies (Right and Left Brain) depicts the embodiment of an Anciently Futuristic perspective. 'Ix depicts the beginning process of digesting the duality of being in a human body, Earthen Energies reflects the joys of being in a body and deeply engaged with the earth.
Check out the playlist: Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music
Talent: Saki Savavi
Filmed by: Brandon Armstrong
Film Festival features: Divine Feminine Film zest, Quetzacoatl Indigenous International Film Fest, Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival, Femfilm Oslo, GRRL HAUS Cinema, LTUE Film Fest, Fairy Tales Queer Film Fest
Wisdom Winds - primordial powers
The third episode of Primordial Powers, Wisdom Winds stretches the accordion of the mental plane and mind-body and offers a unique perspective of the layers of the wind realm. Saki shares her perspective on how to be in right relationship with this aspect of reality.
Check out the playlist: Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music
Special thanks to Tamara Tashna for collaborating across layers.
‘Ix (2020)
‘Ix is a visualizer that depicts the transformation into wholeness of a two-spirited being. The gentle overtones of gestating in the womb, transports the audience to the primordial space where this cohesive merge takes place. This is a film about returning to the original intention of being-ness. Free from the separation and fragmentation that labels create.
Model: Saki Savavi
Production: Wide Angle Youth Media
Film Festival features: Flikkers Queer Film Festival, Reelout Queer Film Festival
The waters – Primordial Powers
We unveil and re-member the Sacred relationship with the Primordial Element of Water. Experience the carefully woven mediums of correspondence, orchestrated with the intention of activating your own journey.
Creator: Saki Savavi
Playlists: Apple Music, Tidal, Spotify
Special thanks to Tamara Tashna for collaborating across layers.
