Deconstructing cholaje in Peruvian and Bolivian Cinema
Deconstructing cholaje in Peruvian and Bolivian Cinema

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes two films from Bolivia and Peru – Ukamau and The Milk of Sorrow, respectively – from the perspective of the deconstruction of cholaje evident in the dramaturgy of both films. The focus is on how cholaje is represented as a byplay and subversively deconstructed as the affirmative social and ideological paradigm in Peru and in Bolivia. Using formal and stylistic analysis, the paper focuses on the deconstructing of cholaje through the principle of associative montage in the case of Ukamau, and through anthropological and ethnographical coding in the case of The Milk of Sorrow. The analysis also emphasizes the notion of indianismo, as the ideology opposed to cholaje, which becomes a national and indigenous way of the future in Ukamau, while in The Milk of Sorrow it elaborates a feminist point of view and turns into a vehicle of emancipation for the protagonist.

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