Unquiet Ground

Unquiet Ground takes you to the Peruvian Andes, where the landscape bears the scars of violence and conflict. Filmed with a 360-degree camera, you are introduced to people dedicated to remembering the “disappeared” of the Peruvian internal armed conflict (1980-2000). Whether exhuming bones from the earth, constructing memorial sanctuaries, or identifying human remains in forensic laboratories, the protagonists’ memories traverse social, geographic, and spiritual territories, continuing to shape these landscapes.

The film’s fractured, nonlinear visual language and its accompanying reflections on framing practices through an unfolded spherical image challenge the notion of a single historical truth. Instead, it suggests how violence and injustice resonate across the diverse experiences and practices of those who remain. War, even many years after the guns have fallen silent, the film concludes, continues as a living, unsettled reality, inhabited and unresolved.