Choqela: Only Interpretation

January 1, 1987 12 min
✓ Released 14462 days ago
Documentary

About

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.

Movie Info

Status: Released
Director: John Cohen
Runtime: 12 min

Similar Movies

When the Mountains Tremble poster
9.0

When the Mountains Tremble

Sep 30, 1983
Documentary History
Wolfram, Wolf's Saliva poster
7.0

Wolfram, Wolf's Saliva

Oct 14, 2010
Documentary
Machete Gillette... Mama poster
6.0

Machete Gillette... Mama

Jan 1, 1989
Documentary

Divoké kmeny Etiopie

Jun 25, 2014
Documentary
Smoke and Rubber: Inside Modified Car Culture poster

Smoke and Rubber: Inside Modified Car Culture

Dec 15, 2025
Documentary Action
Japan in Feast poster
6.5

Japan in Feast

Jun 14, 1918
Documentary