A film I shot in Bolivia has echos of my Mummer's Films from the early eighties.
There was Who's Havin' Fun made with good friend Johnathan Greene who just passed away and also We're # 1--my master thesis film for my MA degree in Visual Anthropolgy.
You will find traces of these earlier works in this recently created work from Bolivia where I spent 10-12 days in February-March 2013.
I had wanted to get a Fulbright grant to return there to do more work.
It is kind of like a wild country. I was fortunate to be there for one the many festivals that occur throughout the year.
The Chutas of Corocoro is one of them.
I had made many photographs but till now have hardly looked at them.
The Chuta edited by James T. Rowland I just revisited after not having looked at it for past two years.
Let me know what you think. A few corrections are needed. One is that 'bears' is said when the translator should have said 'beards'.
The translation made by Bruno Rath--a young Peruvian whose grandmother I had photographed in Solca, Romania in the mid seventies. The Rath Family invited me to visit them in Arequipa, Peru and thus began a new venture which led me to Bolivia. I had once spent a day there and was totally fascinated by the music and the people there. It is another world. I hope to return there this coming winter when I will be in Peru again.
