‘Salt’ is a 28min documentary film shot over many years at Lake Eyre – Kati Thanda in Central Australia. It follows the journey of the photographer Murray Fredericks, who made multiple, often month long journeys, to the centre of the Lake to produce the “Salt” photographic series.

The film won over 12 international awards including the Golden Frog for Best Cinematography at the CameraImage Film Festival, the International Documentary Association’s Best Documentary Short and a Jury Prize at Silverdocs/AFI.

This was Murray’s first film which he co-directed and shot.

This footage is from the early stages of the project which ran from 2010 to 2013 and comprised of 6 visits to East Greenland and a double crossing of the Ice-sheet by dog sled. The resulting feature length documentary was screened on ABC.

The project resulted in numerous exhibitions of still images and number of large scale, mu; ti-screen installations which played the DYE2 and Borealis video works.

Time-lapse Reel Credits
Time-lapse Specialist Murray Fredericks
Editor Lindi Harrison
Composer Tom Schutzinger

Murray Fredericks is an award winning artist renowned for his photographs of the vast empty space of Lake Eyre, South Australia.

When he relocates his work to the Greenland Icecap – atop a melting glacier and under the solar storms of the Aurora Borealis – he finds himself alone in a landscape he’s never been, in a place he doesn’t understand, hoping this time he hasn’t taken his quest too far.

What begins as an artistic odyssey, becomes an adventure of extremes in one of the most breathtaking environments on Earth.

This video was produced to record the process of creating the ARRAY series.

Credits
Camera Murray Fredericks & Nick Bannehr
Time-lapse Specialist Murray Fredericks
Editor Lindi Harrison
Composer Tommy Schutzinger

Special thanks to the Tiwi Land Council