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"I am a cannibal... No matter into what far corner of my mind I push those words, they flash along the surface of my brain like news along the track that runs around the building at Times Square."--Tobias Schneebaum, Keep the river on your right In 1955, .com ---- Artist, anthropologist, and author Tobias Schneebaum spent most of a year living with a tribe in the depths of the Peruvian jungle, during which time he tasted human . Forty-five years later, a pair of filmmakers convinced Schneebaum, in his late 70s, to return to the to discover if any of these tribesmen still exist. Keep the River on Your Right initially seems like it's going to be a highbrow version of a lurid exploitation flick, but instead it becomes both an astonishing portrait of the charming, gracious, and inful Schneebaum--a Greenwich Village artist who became an explorer of uncharted realms of the world--and an examination of the vast breadth of human cultures; for example, the documentarians cunningly juxtapose a ritual circumcision in New Guinea with a Jewish wedding in New York, making each seem both strange and familiar. An unusual and fascinating documentary. --Bret Fetzer From the Back Cover ------------------- In 1955, New York artist Tobias Schneebaum disappeared into the depths of the Peruvian . He had no guide, no , and only the vaguest of instructions: Keep the river on your right. A year later, Schneebaum emerged from the jungle... naked, covered in body paint, and a modern-day cannibal. Titled after Schneebaum's 1969 cult classic memoir about his formative experiences living on the , KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR RIGHT is the extraordinary stranger-than-fiction story of Schneebaum's return to the jungle, 45 years after his original visit, to reunite with the very tribesmen he both loved and who gave him nightmares for nearly half a century. A deeply affecting and searing portrait, sibling filmmakers Laurie and David Shapiro capture a man in utter conflict, a fearless adventurer, and one of the most charming, enigmatic, and perplexing men ever captured on screen. A film beloved by critics and audiences across the country, KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR RIGHT is compelling as it is bizarre. Here, art, love, sex, self-discovery, adventure, and redemption come together in one truly remarkable tale.