Potosi The Journey

In 1970 after their wedding in Buenos Aires Ron and Jacqueline set off for the Andes with backpacks and still cameras While crossing Bolivia on their way to Cuzco they discovered the city of Potosi 29 years later they return to the same places this time with their three daughters and a Super 16 camera A road movie which is both a depiction in real time of Potosi and the Andes and a journey of introspection for the filmmaker and his family Potosi at an altitude of 4100 metres was once one of the largest and richest cities in the world But for the millions of indigenous people who were forced to work in the depths of the mountain Potosi was the gateway to Hell After its silver mines were exhausted Potosi was abandoned poor and forgotten As in his previous film Fragments Jerusalem Ron Havilio also uses personal material to draw a portrait of an Israeli family on the road the generation gap and a meditation on the passage of time