Body of Salt
At midlife, the body becomes not only a site of change but of revelation.
At the peak of her career, feisty midlife filmmaker Axelle arrives in a foreign city to direct a film featuring the Argentine Tango. Here, she discovers the sensual rituals and coded gender roles embedded in the dance, just as her body begins to betray her.
On set, power dynamics between dancers echo her own struggles with control and submission, while off set, Axelle is haunted by visceral flashbacks and surreal visions that blur the boundaries between past and present, reality and dream, nightmare and memory.
Drawn into an increasingly intimate collaboration with the charming and manipulative principal dancer, Axelle’s directorial distance begins to collapse. As the production spirals, Axelle must confront the unspoken choreography of control that has shaped her life: as a woman, an artist, and a survivor.
BODY OF SALT is a slow-burn feminist fever dream, subverting the psychological drama genre with magical realism, distilling myth, memory, and movement into a cinematic rite of passage.
English, French, Spanish | 120 min | in Development
Psychological Drama
Written + Directed by Danielle Sturk, STURKFILMS
First stage of script development was possible with the generous support of The Canada Council For The Arts, the Manitoba Arts council and the Winnipeg Arts Council