“Ethnos” means tribe, nation, or culture in Greek, and “skopein” (as in “telescope”) means to see or look. Looking at cultures is what these films are all about.
My first film, The Tree of Life, taught me a very big lesson: the verbal, academic language i learned in school and university is not the only way to understand and express profound ideas. There is a “ritual language” of myth, poetry, dance, & music which affects us far more than the verbal language we “think” is important. Like this language of ritual, films can help us experience things we may not grasp in words.