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The Colorado River has cut through canyons, cultures, and centuries. Here are nine chapters in its fast-flowing journey.

The eminent French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) dedicated some of the most poetic passages of his influential Tristes Tropiques (1955) to the Nambikwara Indians with whom he lived in 1938. Seventy years after, Marcelo Fortaleza Flores' film weaves past and present together through revisiting the same villages where the anthropologist lived while exploring others that have been contacted since. Interviews with Lévi-Strauss and Tito Wakalitesu (the only Nambikwara Indian who remembers the 1938 expedition), rare archival footage filmed by Lévi-Strauss, scenes of Marechal Rondon's expedition (1907-1915), Rio Papagaio and the Utiarity falls, along with the many aspects of the lives of Namikwara Indians present a vivid portrayal of today against the backdrop of the mutual reminisces of Lévi-Strauss and the Nambikwara.

Inspired by Anaïs Nin's 1936 prose poem House of Incest, Houses of Zodiac is choreographed and performed by Dai Matsuoka of Sankai Juku and Georgina Pazcoguin of New York City Ballet, exploring themes of creation, abjection, guilt, atonement and emancipation. Paola Prestini's music originating from the album with the same name is performed by Jeffrey Zeigler. Directed by Murat Eyuboglu.