Margie Soudek's Salt and Pepper Shakers

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.

• Release date
• January 22, 2023
• Runtime
• 12 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Meredith Moore

Cast

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Margie Soudek Self Meredith Moore Self