# animate! › Films › Sweet Salt by Katerina Athanasopoulou

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/sweetsalt/

Discovery terms: 2000s animation, cut-out animation, live action and animation, digital compositing, obsession, love, loneliness, dark fairy tale, filmmaker, animation artist

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**Sweet Salt** a film by Katerina Athanasopoulou

2005, 6 min 02 sec

[watch this film ›](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1u88t)

![Sweet Salt, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/sweetsalt25.jpg)

### a film by Katerina Athanasopoulou

### animate! synopsis

A love story of obsession and sharp teeth between a woman left behind in a fairy tale gone wrong and a merman trapped in a reality that drowns him.

### key credits

**director**
Katerina Athanasopoulou

**woman**
Gwynne McElveen

**merman**
Ben Hardy

**set build**
Suzie Templeton

**music**
Repairman

**sound designer**
Jake Roberts
Barnaby Templer

**producer**
Becalelis Brodskis

**Sweet Salt** film, stills and other materials © Katerina Athanasopoulou 2005