Sinkholes At Home: A Soundtrack For Salarium (2017)

by Graeme Arnfield

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1.	Mud 02:00	buy track
2.	Pyramid 03:29	buy track
3.	Tour Guide 01:05	buy track
4.	Tourists 03:18	buy track
5.	Exercise 03:18	buy track
6.	Matter 02:29	buy track
7.	Hole 03:20	buy track
8.	Brothers 02:19	buy track
9.	Becoming A Ball 03:13	buy track
10.	Science 01:29	buy track
11.	Rescued 03:08	buy track
12.	Evidence of Life 02:02	buy track
13.	Salt 04:05	buy track

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Soundtrack for "Salarium" - A film by Sasha Litvintseva & Daniel Mann, 2017. Compiling tracks used in the film and those produced for the project.

salarium [latin] - "salary, stipend, pension," originally "salt-money, soldier's allowance for the purchase of salt," noun use of neuter of adjective salarius "pertaining to salt"

Departing from the etymological derivation of both “salary” and “soldier” from “salt”, the film “Salarium” captures the entanglement of economic, military, and geological forces, which manifests in the figure of the sinkhole. Thousands of sinkholes are today perforating the shores of the Dead Sea in Israel and Palestine, covering a wide strip of land that stretches between the water and the vast Judean desert around. Swallowing the remnants of what used to be a popular beach, a water park, or a settlement, the sinkholes make the land uninhabitable and hazardous. What Zionists once called a Natural Treasure to attract tourism and investment, is today a dilapidating site erected on unstable grounds. The sinkhole appears as both visible symptom and active cause of the failure of a colonial project to instrumentalise nature, collapsing together two temporal scales: the micro-histories of settler colonialism and the slow disaster produced by the exhaustion of natural resources. It appears as the collapsing of the surface into the sub-terrain, with that collapsing the possibility of thinking of territory as mere surface.

For more information www.sashalitvintseva.com/salarium

Special Mention for The Original Music Award for Salarium, Cinéma du Réel, 2018

Jury statement: "The music in this film plays an important role in the narrative, where the anxious soundscapes are very well used: the electronic music of Graeme Arnfield has captured the beauty and anguish of these gaping holes that suddenly form on the surface of the earth, imagining the sound that could make these sinkholes."

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released November 1, 2021

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Graeme Arnfield London, UK

Graeme Arnfield is an artist filmmaker & composer living in London. His work has been presented worldwide including Berlinale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Courtisane Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Fest, Sonic Acts, European Media Arts Festival, Transmediale, LUX, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and on e-flux.

www.graemearnfield.com

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