Salarium

Just like sinkholes these gaping holes that since the 1980s have damaged the roads and tourist sites along the shores of the Dead Sea which bathes Israel but also Jordan and the occupied West Bank at breathtaking speed SALARIUM causes a collapse in the viewers perception it obliterates their conception of this territory as being essentially empty a space offered to tourists for its salty uniqueness Drawing on the shared etymology of the words salary and soldier the filmmakers reinject a strand of history and politics into this space now given up to leisure three soldiers enjoy their ice cream on the beach a group of fiftysomethings living on the edge of the Judean Desert unpack their soda cans deckchairs and transistors