Imaginero--The Image Man

Duration: 52

Year Published: 1970

Creator: National University of Tucuman

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Focuses on a Catholic Indian in the Andes who makes religious images as a profession and shows the remaining remnants of Indian life in the Andean culture through the analysis of this man's house, family, and relation to the neighboring village. Studies in depth the Indian's philosophy towards his work, his religion, his society, and the world at large. Recounts his trip to Buenos Aires while still a young man and concludes with his official marriage to his wife of many years.