''Corazón Aymara'' (''Aymara Heart'') is a 1925
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silent feature film, directed by
Pedro Sambarino
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Production background
This film is generally described as Bolivia's first ever fiction feature film. It portrays an
Aymara
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woman struggling against accusations that she is unfaithful to her husband.
Jeff Himpele, in ''Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes'', places ''Corazón Aymara'' in the context of the Bolivian state's "
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project" of the 1920s and 1930s. ''Corazón Aymara'', like
José Maria Velasco Maidana
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Wara Wara
''Wara Wara'' is a 1930 Bolivian feature film, directed by José María Velasco Maidana, combining historical drama and romance. The film was described as a " superproduction" by the press at the time.
Long thought to be a lost film, it was ...
'' (1930), served as a "visual register of the modernization of the nation state" - thus, according to José Antonio Lucero of the
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, "narrating a future of synthetic
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nation building". Lucero also notes that indigenous characters in the cinema of the time were
orientalised and played by non-indigenous actors and actresses.
By contrast, historian
Carlos Mesa
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, who founded Cinemateca Boliviana in 1976 and was its director until 1985, then served as
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from 2003 to 2005, describes ''Corazón Aymara'' and ''Wara Wara'' as part of an "avant-garde intellectual and artistic movement" which promoted the role of indigenous Bolivians in the 1920s and 1930s.
Preservation status
''Corazón Aymara'' is a
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, as there are no known copies of it in existence; ''Wara Wara'' is "the only known surviving work from Bolivia's silent-film era".
"Bolivia's struggle to preserve its film heritage"
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