Salt

by Michael Angus, Murray Fredericks
Tuesday, August 17 at 10:00 PM (60 minutes)

In his search for “somewhere I could point my camera into pure space,” award-winning photographer Murray Fredericks began making annual solo camping trips to remote Lake Eyre and its salt flats in South Australia. These trips have yielded remarkable photos of a boundless, desolate yet beautiful environment where sky, water and land merge. Made in collaboration with documentary filmmaker Michael Angus, Salt is the film extension of Fredericks’ work at Lake Eyre, interweaving his photos and video diary with time-lapse sequences to create the liberating and disorienting experience of being thrown into an infinite dimension of mind and spirit.

Salt will be accompanied by a selection of shorts, including A Healing Art (watch online), by Ellen Frick, winner of the 2009 International Documentary Challenge Audience Award, which delves into the world of artificial eye makers as they rekindle hope for victims of tragedy as well as shorts from the award-winning StoryCorps production team. Animated by filmmakers Mike and Tim Rauch and using original StoryCorps audio recordings, these short films capture the intimate and emotionally resonant conversations that have become renowned as NPR’s quintessential “driveway moments.”