Film
2025
Camargue, France
Salt Line
A twelve-minute film about the people who rake the salt flats at dawn.
Client
Festival des Sels
Services
Film, sound, colour
Duration
8 months
Led by
Jonas Verhaeghe
No. 01
Overview
A quiet documentary short, filmed over one harvest, about a landscape that turns from pink to white in a week.
A horizon with no doors
The salt flats have no walls and no edges, so the film is built around the one man-made line in the landscape: a raised track that runs to the horizon.
We filmed at first light for six weeks. Sound was recorded separately and the score is only footsteps, wind and rakes.
Grading for pink
The water in the pans turns pink for a few days each year. We graded the film to keep that colour honest, not bright, so the last shot, when the pans are dry and white, still feels earned.
No. 02
Results
12
Minutes
41
Days of filming
4
Festivals so far
No. 03
In their words
You can hear the salt in it.
Festival jury note
No. 04
Keep walking
More doors from the studio.
Architecture
A stone farmhouse rebuilt around a row of arches and one old fig tree.
Architecture
Twenty-four homes around a shared courtyard, built from kiln-formed clay blocks.
No. 00
Next door
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