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Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
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Wikipedia article
'Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale' is a 2000 documentary film about the travels of American anthropologist and artist Tobias Schneebaum, directed by brother-and-sister filmmakers David Shapiro and Laurie Gwen Shapiro.
Content
Taking its title from his 1969 book, 'Keep the River on Your Right', the film covers material from several of Schneebaum's other books and articles. In the film, Schneebaum, by then an elderly man, revisits two cannibal tribesone in Papua New Guinea and the other in the jungles of Peruwith whom he had lived several years each as a young man. He and the filmmakers manage to locate a few of the individuals he had known well during those periods.
Personal participation
Schneebaum is remarkably honest about his same-sex relationships with members of both tribes, his childhood fetishizing of cannibalism, and his actual tasting of human flesh with one group. His extensive training in art allowed him to bond with different cultures he studied through sharing carving and painting techniques.
Awards
The film won a 2001 Independent Spirit Award.
References
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