Unmarked Ground

Unmarked Ground is an experimental film exploring migration and the absence of belonging. It follows the search for grounding through the body, connection, and art when no place fully feels like home.

Unmarked Ground is an experimental short film that explores what it means to belong, or to live without that feeling. The project began as a moving-image work and continues to expand into a multi-channel installation. Along the way, it has also taken the form of a video essay, becoming part research, part personal reflection.

The film looks at the experience of migration and the quiet instability that can come with it. For many people who have moved between countries, belonging is not tied to a single land. Home becomes fragmented. You exist in between places, physically present, but emotionally elsewhere.

Rather than focusing on geography alone, Unmarked Ground turns toward the body. Gestures, breath, voice, and proximity become ways of searching for grounding. If land does not fully hold us, maybe connection does. Maybe art does. The work asks whether belonging can be created through relationships, through shared space, or through the act of making.

Visually and structurally, the project mirrors this instability. It moves through different phases and formats, resisting a fixed form, much like the identity it reflects on. The upcoming multi-channel installation will extend this fragmentation, allowing multiple perspectives to exist at once.

Unmarked Ground is not about arriving somewhere stable. It is about inhabiting the in-between, and trying to understand what it means to stand on ground that never fully feels marked as yours.