“I grew up with bits of straw
stuck to my polar fleece.
The kind that doesn’t go away in the wash.
But I went the other way.
I left the fields.
Never to return, I chose another life. ”

Rotofil is the story of a farm succession. Anaïs didn’t take over the family farm. She chose another life, but faced with a dilemma, she struggles between pressures, joy and anger.

Anaïs invites us into her landscapes. Her voice is interwoven with the stories of other farmers, accompanied by her beating drum, as the setting evolves between two mirrored spaces, a parking lot and a green wasteland. Rotofil is a multi-disciplinary show combining text, sound, visual art and documentary work to give farmers a voice in the public arena. In its own way, it explores how agriculture takes root in the landscape, and what it shows us. It’s a calm, grounded cry and tribute to smallholder farming that raises questions about the heavy burden of inherited land.