“Video becomes a crucial technology for the reinvention of indigenous cultures, directed against the effects of the long-standing discrimination of indigenous people, languages, medicinal practices, as well as their social and economic relations.”
- Freya Schiwy, Decolonizing the Frame: Indigenous Video in the Andes
“In this dramatization of a traditional Aymara tale, Satuco hoards money in a vest that he never removes, not even to sleep. When signs tell of his coming death, he shares his secret with a neighbor—and the results are eternal.”
- Nativenetworks.com
“VEST MADE OF MONEY is a fascinating story taken from community legends by Patricio Luna.”
- Jeff D. Himpele, Circuits of Culture: Media Politics and Indigenous Identity in the Andes