Traveling to Bolivia, director Ivan Olita unpacks the creation myth behind the dormant volcano in the world’s largest salt flat.
Traveling to Bolivia, director Ivan Olita unpacks the creation myth behind the dormant volcano in the world’s largest salt flat.
Nico, a local sculptor, is one of the few inhabitants of a land mostly seen as a tourist destination. Steadily chewing coca leaves, he hacks away at the salt rock with his well-worn ax, revealing his raw material—transforming his labor into a self-induced meditation.