Tairona Heritage Trust
Some Other Films about the
David
Attenborough, Peter Elsass, Yesid Campos, Robert Gardner and Brian Moser have
all made films about the Arhuaco. In his book The Coming of the Sun - A
Prologue to Ika Sacred Narrative, Donald Tayler says that '(p)erhaps the
most visually informative among these is Robert Gardner's Ika Hands,
which was filmed in the late eighties with a commentary by Reichel-Dolmatoff.'
He adds that the 'most remarkable film to date of the indigenous inhabitants of
the
In 1994, Austrian TV showed a documentary regarding a group of young German hang-gliders who wanted to fly from the top of the Peaks to the coast. Attempts to walk up the mountain were blocked by the Kogi. Whilst expressing some understanding of why the Kogi were objecting, they nevertheless returned to the coast and hired a helicopter to fly to the Peaks, which are the Land of the Dead for the Kogi. All attempts to hang-glide failed, all machines were damaged in the attempts, and one man died (not of a flying accident). The overall impression was of macho types unsympathetic to the feelings of the people whose land they were trespassing on for their own selfish purposes. There were some interesting shots of the Kogi; lowland Kogi wearing baseball hats, and upland Kogi physically, in a very determined way, blocking the way ahead.
In 1997, a 45 minute
documentary was shown on German TV in the 'Länder, Menschen, Abenteuer' series,
called 'Geheimnisvolles Land der Kogi-Indianer' written and directed by
Wolfram R. Bauer and with a voiceover by Rolf Schult. This film was the subject
of protest from the Kogi, who suggested that they had been tricked into
allowing it, and featured the both Arregoces and Mama
References
- Tayler, Donald. The Coming of the Sun - A
Prologue to Ika Sacred Narrative.
