Halito is an artistic research process culminating in the creation of a film about the ingestion, cultivation, ritual, and material poetics of salt. The film was shot with the inhabitants of the Uyuni or Tunupa Salt Flat in the Bolivian Altiplano, the highest sediment of a dried sea on Earth. Halito is the result of collective work and process carried out with the communities of Chijllapata, Tahua, and Jaruma. The process becomes an act to transgress daily life and reimagine a place collectively, forming a temporary community that imagines through ingestion and unites through a language-free artistic process. Together, they constructed the script, characters, and costumes, and performed the fiction in front of the camera that now constitutes Halito.
Writer: alfonso borragan
Cinematography: Álvaro Sau Razkin
Editors: Orhi Studio
Sound: La Tina
Music: Simon Williams
Production: Malena Rodríguez García, Reynaldo Soliz Quispe, alfonso borragan
This community is formed by Malena Rodríguez García, Eliana Pilar Cossio Coca, Rómulo Soliz Huanca, Angélica Quizpe Mamami, José Flores Lopes, Wilmer Flores Copa, Nasario Copa Flores, Edgar Flores Gosales, Jairo Cortijo Gil, Vanesa González Sainz, María Soliz Chaca, Juan Huanca Quizpe, David Condory Bueno; y detrás de la lente: Reynaldo Soliz Quizpe and Dora Chaca Chungara.
