Astronomer and the indian (The)
details
- Production
- 2002, France
- Original language
- French
- Running time
- 01:18:00
- Genre
- documentary
- Topic
- anthropology, astronomy
- Directed by
- Sylvie Blum, Carmen Castillo
- Produced by
- Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, ARTE France
- Member page
- Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo
In the Atacama desert in Chili, four of the largest astronomical observatories on the planet have been built. A new observatory, the ALMA, is going to be constructed a few kilometers from Indian villages established in the same Cordillera for centuries. The film questions the co-existence on the same territory of two visions of the sky: scientists' "rational" view and the Indians' "magical" one.