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.
 
                 
                        THE ASTRONOMER AND THE INDIAN
- Sylvie Blum
- Carmen Castillo
- Documentary
- 2002
- 1h18
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