Elephants

This video shows the routine journey of trucks in Chuquicamata, constantly emptying their loads and thereby producing a waste dump - or what is called locally as a “cake” of sterile material from the mining process. These “cakes” topographically replace the houses of the old Chuquicamata mining camp. The scale and the repetitive action involved in this process leads the viewer to see the trucks as beings on a journey, as if they were elephants in a caravan.

Digital8 Video
02 min
Music: “December Haze”, track from Anders Ilar
2004