

Choqela: Only Interpretation
1987-01-01
12 minutes.
Overview
This provocative and profound film documents the Choqela ceremony, an agricultural ritual and song of the Aymara Indians of Peru. By offering several different translations of the proceedings, the film acknowledges the problems of interpretation as an inherent dilemma of anthropology.
Year 1987
Studio
Director John Cohen
Crew Rufus Cohen (Sound Recordist), Richard Rogers (Sound Recordist), Yolanda Lopez (Translator), John Cohen (Editor), John Cohen (Director), John Cohen (Camera Operator)
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