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'Corazn Aymara' ('Aymara Heart') is a 1925 lost Bolivian silent feature film, directed by Pedro Sambarino.

Production background



This film is generally described as Bolivia's first ever fiction feature film.[http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/wara-wara/ "Wara Wara"], The Bioscope[http://www.radiopanama.com.pa/nota.aspx?id=838791 "El lago Titicaca ha fascinado a los cineastas una y otra vez"] , 'La Razn', 3 July 2009 It portrays an Aymara woman struggling against accusations that she is unfaithful to her husband.

Jeff Himpele, in 'Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes', places 'Corazn Aymara' in the context of the Bolivian state's "indigenist project" of the 1920s and 1930s. 'Corazn Aymara', like Jos Maria Velasco Maidana's 'Wara Wara' (1930), served as a "visual register of the modernization of the nation state"Jeff D. Himpele, 'Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes'. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008, p. 107 - thus, according to Jos Antonio Lucero of the University of Washington, "narrating a future of synthetic mestizo nation building". Lucero also notes that indigenous characters in the cinema of the time were orientalised and played by non-indigenous actors and actresses.[http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/winter_09/Lucero_Rev.pdf "The Lion King vs. Evo Morales? Adventures in the Andean Vision World"], Jos Antonio Lucero, 'A Contracorriente', Vol. 6, No. 2, Winter 2009

By contrast, historian Carlos Mesa, who founded Cinemateca Boliviana in 1976 and was its director until 1985, then served as President of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005, describes 'Corazn Aymara' and 'Wara Wara' as part of an "avant-garde intellectual and artistic movement" which promoted the role of indigenous Bolivians in the 1920s and 1930s.[http://www.lecourrier.ch/index.php?name=NewsPaper&file=article&sid=447184 "C'est l'idalisation du mtissage"] , 'Le Courrier', 16 October 2010

Preservation status



'Corazn Aymara' is a lost film,Jeff D. Himpele, 'Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes'. p. 100 as there are no known copies of it in existence; 'Wara Wara' is "the only known surviving work from Bolivia's silent-film era".[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11629746 "Bolivia's struggle to preserve its film heritage"], BBC, 29 October 2010

See also



*List of lost films

References




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