Directed by Johanne Chagnon

Johanne Chagnon's beautiful vision lands at the Milan Gold Award Festival with a 14 - minute short movie called UNHEARTH THE LANDSCAPE.

As the title suggests, this experimental movie plays with creation and disintegration, where the human body and the landscape that surrounds and embraces it become one.

Decay alternates with birth. And the process goes on through a constant overlap of images.

Her body appears and disappears (or better arises and dies) within the ground, the materials, the nature.

The images and the sequences remind us of the moon's surface and its first interaction with the human body. It looks like a virgin space and Chagnon a newborn that has to test the area, the distance, in a respectful relationship and not in a violent takeover act.

The overlap keeps going until the human body takes the sea in the last act of communion with nature and slowly disappears within it, surrounded by silence and a fast-forwarded dance of waves.

Many meanings are hidden behind this short movie, which shows Chagnon's deep love for experimental works. 

But the relationship between human beings and nature is explicit, and it makes the film very up-to-date with one of the most sensitive subjects of our current time.