Hermógenes Cayo (Imaginero)
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009
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content: Jorge Prelorán films
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content: Jorge Prelorán films / Series 1: Completed Films and Videos / 1.1: Films directed by Prelorán
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content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Ethnographic and biographical film presents a portrait of Hermógenes Cayo, a religious icon maker from the Puna, the high Andean plateau, Jujuy Province, Argentina, near the Bolivian border. The narration was drawn from audio recordings of Cayo taken over a period of several years. The footage, filmed over two years, documents Cayo's work, as well as his family and some aspects of their daily life, a trip with his son to the nearest town, and his marriage to his wife, Aurelia. Using historical photographs, the film also presents the story of Cayo's participation in the Malón de la Paz of 1946, in which indigenous residents of northwestern Argentina marched to Buenos Aires to demand land rights. The film was shot between 1965 and 1967 and first released in 1969. In 1970, Prelorán released a shortened version the film and an English language version. The HSFA holds two versions.