An animated vision of mutating environment. ‘The world has become a dried out planet, where the growing of cotton, overexploited 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 ecological disaster, the desertification of the Aral Sea.’ (SM)
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Ready for My Close-Up
Insights or vistas? Film and science have this much in common: they invite close reading, and cultivate the close-up. Then again, the smallest details often reveal the most splendid landscapes.
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 7"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi PAL
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