Bastián de Luka is a traveler, musician, filmmaker, and storyteller driven by a simple fascination: the stories humans have created to make sense of the mystery of existence.
Through the Tales of the Kosmic Monkey, an award-winning cinematic series, he journeys across sacred landscapes, ancient sites, and forgotten roads in search of the myths, symbols, and beliefs that have shaped human consciousness for thousands of years.
The adventure began in the American Southwest, among the deserts, canyons, arches, mesas, and vast open spaces of Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. The second season takes place entirely in Mexico, exploring some of the most powerful cultural and spiritual landscapes of Mesoamerica, from Teotihuacán and El Tajín to Calakmul, Palenque, Chichén Itzá, the surreal gardens of Edward James, and the living traditions of Indigenous communities.
Traveling aboard Polo, his off-road van transformed into a mobile recording studio and creative sanctuary, Bastián follows no fixed itinerary. Encounters, intuition, and curiosity guide the road ahead. Along the way, landscapes become stories, stories become music, and music becomes a bridge between worlds.
Blending cinematic imagery, original musical compositions, mythology, philosophy, and personal reflection, the Tales of the Kosmic Monkey invites viewers to step outside modern narratives and reconnect with older ways of understanding the world. It is a search for meaning, wonder, and the sacred hidden within everyday life.
Part explorer, part musician, part storyteller, Bastián acts as a collector of myths, symbols, and perspectives encountered along the way. His role is not to provide answers, but to gather fragments of humanity's collective imagination and weave them into a larger story. Guided by the curiosity and sense of wonder of a child, he follows the traces left by those who came before us, the storytellers, visionaries, shamans, philosophers, and ordinary people who sought to understand the mystery of existence.
For Bastián, the Kosmic Monkey is not a character. It is the universal human, the one who, everywhere on Earth and throughout history, has looked at the stars, the mountains, the forests, and the unknown, and imagined stories to explain them. The creator of myths, legends, spirits, gods, and cosmologies. The invisible thread connecting cultures through a shared search for meaning, wonder, and belonging.
Across two seasons and nineteen episodes, The Tales of the Kosmic Monkey has become an invitation to see the world differently: not as a collection of places, but as a living tapestry of stories, beliefs, and connections waiting to be rediscovered.
