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The Lyricism of Images: ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT by Raven Jackson is Presented at the 22nd FICM

Daniel Hernández

Producer Adele Romanski presented the film All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023) by director Raven Jackson at the 22nd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM).

Festival programmer Chlöe Roddick attended the presentation. Through lyrical, non-linear portraits that evoke the texture of memories, the film viscerally and experientially analyzes the life of a Black woman in the South of the United States from childhood to adulthood.

In her presentation, Chlöe Roddick highlighted the beauty and originality of the work: “It is a poetic, simple and beautiful work that is difficult to categorize." The film tells the story of a Black American woman from childhood to adulthood through lyrical and timeless portraits.

The film's producer spoke of its narrative style: “Moments are arranged in a mosaic that intrinsically builds itself up piece by piece. It allows the present, past and future to merge into a kind of eternal now.”

Finally, Adele Romanski took the opportunity to highlight the beauty of the lyrically constructed film: “The film is a poem, it will stretch out its hand and offer it to you. I urge you to take it as a warm embrace,” she concluded.