Native Peoples Take The Camera And Develop Their Own Cinema

“From Inuit fishermen in Canada … to Quechua salt-harvesters in Bolivia, they are grabbing whatever equipment they can find to make films of their own.  … [Absent are] the drama and momentum that western audiences expect. Here, time tends to be circular rather than linear … the idea being to keep the memory [of an event] alive, rather than turn it into entertainment.”