Abstract
This article offers a detailed discussion of the film The Noise of Time by Rubén Guzmán (Argentina, 2021). The essay film is a poetic reflection on the morally questionable excavations and anthropological research by the early 20th-century Swedish-Argentine archaeologist-anthropologist Eric Boman (1867–1924), in the northwestern Argentinian high Andes (Puna). In this film Boman has to return as a ghost to the Puna to bury Carpanchay, his former indigenous guide, also now a ghost, in order to redeem for his bad deeds as an archaeologist-anthropologist in real life. This article explores the historical background and, extending on the film’s metaphysical message, makes an explicit case for potential restitution (of artifacts from Boman’s excavations that are now held in various museums in Argentina and Europe) in the context of the recent restitution debate.
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