LoveSick: Les Collines de Sel
Centering the natural landscape of the Camargue in a story of love since passed, and restored through nostalgia, Swiss director Alexandre Schild paints the impact of memory and loss through symbolism for short film Les Collines de Sel.
Returning to the region in Southern France, and the salt hills that defined her teenage years, a young woman unearths a buried tape left by a former love, lost to suicide, serving as a time capsule from a past life and the relationship that shaped her youth. Representing nature as a gateway to the beyond, the hills become a symbol of the salt of tears and the salt of the earth, physically materialized through the landscape’s visual strength and authenticity as the protagonist confronts her past and her grief.
Captured on 16mm film – shooting on location with a small crew, using only natural light – Les Collines de Sel explores the bond we maintain with those who have left us, guided by a voice recording as the last physical and sensory element the film’s lead has to connect to her memory. Bringing together human and nature, physical and absent, Schild considers grief and resilience in the face of death, and where the mind takes us when we connect with the absence of another.
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