Salt: trace, absence of water, passage of time, invading epidemic, living cemetery. Water: manoeuvre, absolute value, fertility, rhizomes, chance. Cotton: corruption, economic issues, hydrophily, desertification. The world has become a vast dried out planet, where the growing of cotton, over exploited for economical reasons is the main cause of desertification. A saline desert covers acres of dried out land where strange salt trees appear. This phenomenon echoes an even greater ecological disaster, the desertification of the Aral Sea. And man is always responsible...
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Momoko Seto Director · Jean-René Lorand Cinematographer
First release April 1, 2009 · Produced in France
Production
Le Fresnoy
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France
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Original language
French
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
France · April 1, 2009
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No release date listed for United States.
Taiwan
October 17, 2025 · Premiere · Women Make Waves International Film Festival
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