On Lanzarote’s salt flats, workers build endless mounds of salt, mirroring the Sisyphus myth
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 Published On Jul 3, 2024

Finding a source of fascination in the ever-repeating cycle that accompanies the salt mining process, director Ferdinand Feldmann travelled to Lanzarote, lensing the Salinas de Janubio salt evaporation ponds for experimental documentary Salinas. Watching salt water channel through a network of basins, slowly evaporating as it progresses, the few remaining men who work at the lagoon – many for over 30 years – build countless small mountains of salt to dry and then harvest, entering a repetitive routine with no apparent end.…read more at nowness.com

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