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Margaret Salmon (b. 1975) ![]() Margaret Salmon makes films that are equal parts anthropological study, lyrical narrative, and documentary. Her works intimately study the lives of ordinary individuals as they perform routine habits; she calls these “time-based portraits.” Salmon has made films about her own sisters and about women in various states of motherhood throughout Italy; themes in her work include isolation, childhood, difference, repetition, and self-perception. Her films are made with an eye for formal realism, inspired particularly by Cinema Vérité and Italian Neo-Realist cinematic traditions. Salmon also draws inspiration from street photography, guidebooks, and propaganda film; she sometimes presents her film as a multi-channel installation, showing two different reels of footage side-by-side in order to exaggerate their differences. |