“Alicia in the Land” follows a thirteen-year-old girl from the Quechua tribe as she makes a 180 km journey on foot. From her village in southern Bolivia, Alicia sets off in search of work in northern Chile, in the tourist town of San Pedro de Atacama. Close-ups, filmed with a hand-held camera, with only the girl’s breathing and the repetitive thud of her footsteps on the soundtrack, long lateral pans in which the horizontal lines of the plains interact and combine with the geometry of Alicia’s silhouette; all underscore the effort involved in such a journey.
