User:Pimnusia/Black Purple

 Black Purple  (Negro Púrpura) is a documentary by the production company Illa Bufarda, directed by Sabela Iglesias and Adriana P. Villanueva, screened at the opening session of the Museo do Pobo Galego's International Ethnographic Film Festival (MICE).

Synopsis
Black Purple portrays twentieth-century Galicia via the the collection of ergot, a and hallucinogenic parasitic fungus wich grows on grains, like rye, and opens the door to a past curious, surprising and unknown, as it important for the cultural and revolutionized the economy of a small part of the peasant population in Galicia (Spain) in the 40s and 50s.

Cockspur rye], ergot, claviceps purpurea, mother of rye, cockspur... this fungus of a thousand names as it was a product whose alkaloids were synthesized for medical use and highly valued in international trade. Carries stories from our neighbours'doorteps to multinational pharmaceutical companies and the CIA; from medieval plagues to folk medicine, to LSD. Scattered stories that leave behind a bitter taste of rye bread and reverberate acroos ceans. A crust that holds a delirious crumb. This fungus was used in traditional medicine and as a source of hallucinogenic drug LSD.