Margie Soudek's Salt and Pepper Shakers

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 12 min
  • Premiere: 2023. January 22.

An artist and VFX instructor connects with her aging grandmother, Margie, in a documentary short on collecting, artmaking, and obsessiveness as a way to enhance our realities. Margie has been collecting salt and pepper shakers for 73 years -- at 94, her days are spent repeating the same, simple routine. When her granddaughter pays her a visit, the collection, now in the thousands, takes on a new life. With a score by Dan Deacon, the film -- part love letter, part documentary, part experiment -- merges the real, the fantastical, and the world of a computer desktop.

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Crew

Albert Birney

Cinematography

Jonna McKone

Cinematography

Directing

Meredith Moore

Director

Editing

Production

Meredith Moore

Producer

Sebastian Pardo

Executive Producer

Jonna McKone

Producer

Riel Roch Decter

Executive Producer

Sound

Chester Endersby Gwazda

Sound Designer

Dan Deacon

Original Music Composer