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SELVA is an experimental documentary installation project composed of two elements:

An interactive VR experience and a physical installation set-up. The project is based on traditional Amazonian songs and the possibilities of visualising and experiencing their sound frequencies.

SELVA explores how Amazonian Indigenous Peoples connect with the spiritual beings that populate the invisible worlds through sacred songs. Sacred songs are bridges that enable relationships between different beings that do not share the same vital condition or inhabit the same time-space. Amazonian sacred songs are supposed to come from the heart enlightened by the knowledge of the spirits themselves. For the Amazonian Nations, the heart is the seat of thoughts. Through the chanted word (the word of mythical times), thoughts go out into the world and are heard by the spirits. More than the words in the songs, the thoughts they contain and the intentions with which they are sung allow communication with the beings that populate the worlds, visible and invisible.

Amazonian Indigenous Peoples often believe in the universality of language, where linguistic faculties belong to all living beings without discriminating between humans and non-humans. Traditional histories say that all beings (animals, plants, stars and spirits) shared the same language in the time of the beginning. Sacred chants can reactivate that mythical time and that shared language. The strength of each singer's heart, the power of his thoughts, and the links he has established with beings of the unseen worlds will determine whether the chants will affect the world of dense matter.[1

SELVA proposes an approach to the Amazon Rainforest from the people who have inhabited it for centuries. SELVA introduces the characters and ritual scenes that allow the exploration of chants, sound frequencies and vibrations, bridging film footage with animation. SELVA immerses the viewer in Amazonian ancestral