Year after year, for an endless eight months, thousands of families move to a desert in India to extract salt from the burning earth. Every monsoon their salt fields are washed away, as the desert turns into sea.
Punishingly poetic profile filmed in breathtaking surroundings.
My Name is Salt is not an expose of exploitation or suffering – although it is an unavoidable fact that these families remain in poverty – but a surprisingly uplifting celebration of exceptional human achievement.
The latest entry in the expanding subgenre of documentaries about food production is a beautifully made film about craftsmanship and endurance.
A sleepy take on back-breaking labour.
The infinitesimal nature of humankind in the face of the environment is poetically essayed in this starkly beautiful documentary.
Mesmerising.
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Friday March 13, 2015, until Tuesday March 17, 2015. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com