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NZAMBI PREMIERES NEXT WEEK

Dear friends, the NZAMBI project has finally reached the point of completion. We have compiled several hundred hours of footage that was created during a one-month road trip across Haiti, traveling from Jackmel to Artibonite. What we saw was incredibly complicated, and weird, and difficult to explain. I was anointed with the blood of a pig, fresh from its jugular. I lived with a man who was shot in the face fourteen times. I vowed never to have (intravaginal) sex on a Thursday again for the rest of my life, at risk of death and financial ruin. I crushed the cranial bones of a small child with a large wooden pestle. I held the beard of a dying goat.

In Haiti you will find the roads of material and metaphysical realities intersect, you may call these intersecting reality-roads "cross-roads" if you wish. Are zombies real? Yes, without a doubt, but that "yes" carries many hours of head scratching consideration. Are we not what we believe we are to be, and should that belief be magical, does not that magic become our reality?

I encourage you to ponder these things over a cup of warm maté and 5mg of Adderall while delighting in the subtle flavor of a lightly salted slice of avocado on a whole-grain cracker. Perhaps turn to your friend, roommate, or lover and ask them, "what does it mean to be alive and are we all salves and isn't the word "barbaric" really relative depending on our cultural matrix?" Listen and grow as a person as your mind is enriched by their thoughtful response then shake their hand and say, while making unblinking eye contact, "I value you."

HAMILTON MORRIS
PS - There will be a secret screening of NZAMBI sometime soon, more details to come…