ODL Fellow Natasha Blatsiou is currently working on UNWRITTEN LAND, an interactive transmedia project that brings together film, images, writings, drawings and sound to document a wild landscape and its people against the backdrop of an unprecedented threat.
Where the modern world ends, Agrafa begins. Agrafa, which means “unwritten” in Greek, is a maze of dirt tracks leading to remote villages and lightning-struck peaks. The small number of people who insist on getting on with their simple – albeit not-so-ordinary – lives in the area are caught up between a fading nostalgia and an ambiguous vision of their unacknowledged land. Faced with the threat of a massive wind farm development plan, many people rise up. Locals, now joined by activists and nature lovers build a movement that gradually elevates the region into a national symbol of resistance against the destruction of nature.
UNWRITTEN LAND is a place; a nature archetype; an archaic world; a collective memory of a rural landscape and its people