Planet A / Planet A
France / 2008 / 7' 40''
Educational institution: Le Fresnoy
Director: Momoko Seto
Production: Le Fresnoy
Distribution: Le Fresnoy
Animation: Mihai Grecu & Brice Bignami
Set: Momoko Seto
Screenplay: Momoko Seto
Storyboard: Momoko Seto
Compositing: Momoko Seto
Camera: Momoko Seto
Editing: Momoko Seto
Music: Yann Leguay
Sound: Ronan Gicquel
Cast: salt
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.