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''Corazón Aymara'' (''Aymara Heart'') is a 1925 lost
Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...
n silent feature film, directed by Pedro Sambarino.


Production background

This film is generally described as Bolivia's first ever fiction feature film. It portrays an Aymara 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 " indigenist project" of the 1920s and 1930s. ''Corazón Aymara'', like José Maria Velasco Maidana's '' Wara Wara'' (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
mestizo (; ; fem. ) is a term used for racial classification to refer to a person of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry. In certain regions such as Latin America, it may also refer to people who are culturally European even though thei ...
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 Carlos Diego de Mesa Gisbert (; born 12 August 1953) is a Bolivian historian, journalist, and politician who served as the 63rd president of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005. As an independent politician, he previously served as the 37th vice pre ...
, who founded Cinemateca Boliviana in 1976 and was its director until 1985, then served as
President of Bolivia The president of Bolivia ( es, Presidente de Bolivia), officially known as the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia ( es, Presidente del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is head of state and head of government of Bolivia and the ca ...
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
lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy ...
, 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"
BBC, 29 October 2010


See also

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List of lost films For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films. R ...


References


External links


''Corazon Aymara'' at IMDB
{{DEFAULTSORT:Corazon Aymara 1925 films Bolivian silent films Bolivian black-and-white films Lost Bolivian films Films set in Bolivia 1925 drama films 1925 lost films Lost drama films