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.