A film by Andrew Weeks

In January 1998 Linda Schele gave a long, filmed interview with Simon Martin, in which she talked freely and frankly in her own inimitable style about her life, work, and philosophy. This has been edited, together with extra visual material, in order to make a documentary tribute. When she died of cancer in April 1998, at the height of her powers, Linda Schele was the dominant personality in the field of Maya studies — a subject of abiding fascination for a public enamoured of mysterious ruins and seemingly impenetrable inscriptions; an ancient culture which left behind a legacy of incredible images of beauty, power, and terror. Professor in the History of Art at the University of Texas, Austin, Linda Schele had become one of the best known communicators to the public of the extraordinary discoveries which have changed our understanding of this ancient culture.

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