Astronomer and the indian (The)

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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
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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.