Asking Ayahai : an ayoreo Story
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Bessire Lucas ;
- Editeurs : Watertown Documentary Educational Resources [éd., distrib.] ;
- Date d'édition : 2004
- Sujets : Films documentaires -- Bolivie, Bolivie, Films ethnographiques Bolivie
- Langue(s) : Anglais, Espagnol, castillan
- Description matérielle : 1 DVD vidéo monoface simple couche zone 0 (41 min), : Coul.
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Film en version originale en anglais et espagnol. Sous-titres anglais ; Tourné en Bolivie et au Paraguay
Résumé
The film focuses on the personal journey of Ayahai, an 80-year-old Ayoreo elder, whose life spans the period of dramatic transition for the Ayoreo of South America’s Gran Chaco as they moved from nomadic hunter/gatherers to wage laborers. Currently a part-time panhandler in Santa Cruz, his story is common to many lowland indigenous peoples. Ayahai’s testimony of the critical contact moment with Westerners is juxtaposed with the memories of Dr. Charles Ramsey, another Octogenarian who was one of the first missionaries to reach Ayahai’s group in the 1950’s. The change and adaptation Ramsey praises has come at an expensive price for the Ayoreo. Since that first meeting, the Ayoreo have been discriminated against at all levels of Bolivian and Paraguayan society and face debilitating poverty. Interviews with urban Ayoreo and other Bolivian citydwellers reveal the opposition they continue to face as they attempt to survive on their own land. Only during a village screening of the unfinished film with the filmmaker does the Ayoreo community gain an opportunity to discuss and respond to the opinions of the non-Ayoreo in Santa Cruz