Your winter sidewalk grit came from where?! This 4-minute trip will wreck you.
Salar is an experimental short and inspiration for "Fundir", following Boston's road salt to its source in the Atacama Desert. Filmed in Iquique, Chile, and in Chelsea, MA. Allison Cekala 2014. Shot on hand processed 16mm and Super8 film.
Cinematography
Hand-processed 16mm makes salt mines look like alien landscapes.
Editing
Jarring cut from Chelsea slush to Chilean desert — genius.
Direction
Cekala connects two dots you never knew existed.
Director
Allison Cekala
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Atacama Desert holds the world's largest lithium reserves too — Cekala's later work 'Fundir' expanded this into a feature about extraction capitalism.
Chelsea, MA processes 500,000 tons of Chilean salt annually. This short makes you feel every single grain.
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