KARIKARI (SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 2015, 10min)
"The karikari is not man but devil!"
(Auria)
"He does exist in the town. It happens in the bus."
(Celestino)
"He sends you to sleep in order to get your fat."
(Paulina)
"He uses a bell to hypnotize people. So they become an easy prey."
(Father Saul)
"You won't find a karikari willing to have himself filmed. And they won't tell you a thing."
(Eulogio)
"Even I could be a karikari. I could teach myself. Everyone could be one.“
(Auria)
"In the Andean world, fat stands for soul. The karikari takes your soul from you, getting your fat."
(Milton Eyzaguirre,
National Museum for Ethnography and Folklore)
"Nowadays, you can get medicine against karikari even in regular pharmacies.“
(Vasilia)
"Only the shaman can really cure you.“
(Auria)
"From a scientific perspective, there is no karikari.“
(Andrés Flores, Director of the Bolivian National Institut of Forensic Investigations)
DIRECTOR PRODUCER CAMERA EDITOR Marcus Fiebig
