Astronomer and the indian (The)

Production
2002, France
French
01:18:00
Genre
documentary
anthropology, astronomy
Sylvie Blum, Carmen Castillo
Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, ARTE France
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.