Synopsis

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, 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 even greater ecological disaster, the desertification of the Aral Sea. And man is always responsible.

Momoko Seto

Momoko Seto (1980) studied at the French school in Tokyo, then went to the Fine Arts school of Marseille, France. She was selected for international exchange by California College of Arts, and was a fellowship student at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, while working for Asia Network (Réseau Asie, CNRS) as filmmaker (2007-2008). She works and lives between Paris and Tokyo.  In 2007 she made a short fiction film Paris Plage.