Crónica de un baile de muñeco

"To take a picture of someone, to put them in a video moving and walking, is to take their spirit away". More than just an ethnographic record, Crónica de un baile de muñeco provides an account of the tradition’s varying levels of interpretation and, in particular, two that come into confrontation with each other and find points of dialogue: for the Western, keeping records of memories, for the indigenous, to do without them. While the Yucuna community prepares this ritual, a representation that accompanies men and animals for the sacred understanding of their lives, this documentary is built from out of the overlap that can occur when combining -and negotiating- the viewpoint of the one doing the filming, and that of the one being filmed and observed in their rite: the performers of the Yucuna community.


Diana Bustamante
Producer and Film Programmer