Shaman was filmed on July the 16th, 1977 in the northernmost corner of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Peninsula, at the Avam river, concurrently with the shooting of the documentary The Winds of the Milky Way. The Nganasan shaman Demnime (1913 ̶1980) was 64 years old at the time. The documentary about Demnime’s incantation ritual was completed 20 years later.