Spirit Doctors enters into the shrouded world of Mary and Ed Louie, two Native spirit doctors who have, for more than fifty years, been committed to the age-old practices that keep them accountable to the spirit world, the elders and Mother Earth.
From the lush Similkameen valley of the interior to the cityscapes of Vancouver, British Columbia, Burke reveals a beautiful way of life rarely seen and explore the on going debate around the ethics of documenting such sacred ceremonial knowledge.
Animated Short ~Come Again in Spring ~ ( 12 min)
Come Again in Spring is a gentle tale about mortality the works in subliminal ways. Can we negotiate our time on earth? How does each one of us reconcile our mortal fate? A lyrical look, exquisitely animated, at a reality as old as humanity, as young as today.