Choqela: Only Interpretation

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 12 min
  • Premiere: 1987. January 1.

This provocative and profound film documents the Choqela ceremony, an agricultural ritual and song of the Aymara Indians of Peru. By offering several different translations of the proceedings, the film acknowledges the problems of interpretation as an inherent dilemma of anthropology.

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Camera

John Cohen

Camera Operator

Crew

Rufus Cohen

Sound Recordist

Richard Rogers

Sound Recordist

Yolanda Lopez

Translator

Directing

John Cohen

Director

Editing

John Cohen

Editor

Camera

John Cohen

Camera Operator

Crew

Rufus Cohen

Sound Recordist

Richard Rogers

Sound Recordist

Yolanda Lopez

Translator

Directing

John Cohen

Director

Editing

John Cohen

Editor