Embodied Landscapes is a short film that blurs the boundaries between dance, sculpture, drawing, and environment. Created by Minnesota artists Jessalyn Finch, Mary Mailand Schlichting, and Laura Sukowatey, the film follows a wanderer through interior worlds made visible. Guided by an otherworldly presence through landscapes of memory, belief, distortion, and release.
Crafted entirely by a three-women creative team, Embodied Landscapes is an excavation of what lies beneath the surface of the self. Through the film’s immersive visual language, each stage becomes an act of feeling, shedding, and moving deeper. What emerges is a study in transformation: part ritual, part confrontation, part rebirth.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.

Directed by Laura Sukowatey and Jessalyn Finch (USA)