ID - Salt / Videomappings

Salt

Salt is a short documentary on photographer Murray Fredericks’
extreme journeys to capture the heart of the world’s
most featureless landscape on Lake Eyre, South Australia.

Michael Angus, Murray Fredericks. While Salt is
Michael Angus’ third film, having previously made Ooldea
(2006) and The Fight Game (2006), it is Murray
Fredericks’s first project as a cinematographer and director.
As a photographer, Frederick’s major bodies of work have
been produced in the Himalayas, Patagonia, Tasmania and
most recently, Lake Eyre. Salt has toured numerous festivals
and won awards all over the world.

Videomappings:
Aida, Palestine

In this film about Aida, a Palestinian refugee camp, the
typical images so familiar from thousands of documentary
films about conflict in the Middle East are absent. In fact
there is no documentary footage, as Roeskens’ unusual film
consists only of maps drawn on white pieces of paper that
illustrate the stories of five Aida residents. To start with each
white sheet is blank, but as each refugee speaks the sheets
fill with lines mapping out the places and situations that
make up their lives. The stories from their lives are of exile,
mourning, fear and ultimately, loss of identity. The nature of
the film convincingly relates the spatial oppression suffered
by Palestinians at every turn. Even the simplest route
becomes circuitous, complex and lengthy due to constant
controls, walls, barbed wire, and checkpoints. New obstacles
and traps pop up all the time, but life must go on.

Till Roeskens is an exploring visual artist. His work
develops in the confrontation with a given territory and
those who try to draw their own ways within it. The result of
his explorations, be it a book, a video film, a slide show lecture
or other mediums, is never meant to be a simple report,
but an invitation to exercice one’s perception.