Salarium

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Salarium (2018)

Directed by Daniel Mann, Sasha Litvintseva

· 42m

Just like sinkholes – these gaping holes that, since the 1980s, have damaged the roads and tourist sites along the shores of the Dead Sea (which bathes Israel but also Jordan and the occupied West Bank) at breathtaking speed – SALARIUM causes a collapse in the viewers’ perception: it obliterates their conception of this territory as being essentially empty, a space offered to tourists for its salty uniqueness. Drawing on the shared etymology of the words “salary” and “soldier”, the filmmakers re-inject a strand of history and politics into this space now given up to leisure (three soldiers enjoy their ice cream on the beach, a group of fifty-somethings living on the edge of the Judean Desert unpack their soda cans, deckchairs and transistors).

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Crew

Director
Daniel Mann, Sasha Litvintseva

Details

Release date
2018-03-25
Runtime
42m
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United Kingdom