By Monica Delgado

A quote by William Burroughs is the prelude – or door – to the journey that the Mexican filmmaker and researcher Martín Molina Gola proposes in Yagé (2021), from a tense black and white, product of a negative treatment of digital video. The beatnik brand as a reflection for entering an Amazonian universe, perhaps a cliché option, or perhaps a tie with a poetic or worldview around the processes produced by yagué or ayahuasca.