A Hundred Years
Angelica Mesiti
2020 - 21 min - Video Full HD - Couleur - France, Australie

Winter, spring, summer, fall. Seasons change regardless of whether we are in peace or at war. The cycles of the natural world are resilient, persistent and unwavering.
One hundred years after the devastating events of the Great War, the land of the most brutal battlefields in northern France have come back to life. Still marked by the scars of war—a deep crater from a detonated mine, winding dugouts of former trenches, and a lone tree that survived the bombing of a wood—these landmarks become memorials to the horrors of a war that devastated a generation.
A musician walks over the grass that has filled in the crater. His slow air tune, played on a tin whistle, is a requiem for the thousands of lives lost, hastily buried in the soil beneath his feet a century ago. Here the bodies of fallen soldiers have returned to the land and nourish the soil. Nature continues to regenerate.