UNEARTH - In Between States of Matter is a speculative documentary shortfilm which explores connections between the geosphere, biosphere, and technosphere. The film examines geological processes related to resource extraction, focusing on radical material transformations. Mining machines are portrayed as complex agents, with attention to their past, present and future states of aggregation.

An author, who grew up in a mining town, speaks about her lifelong obsession with stones. Two geologists report the emergence of previously unknown minerals in regions that are shaped by large-scale resource extraction.

New minerals emerge through human activity and cause, in turn, mutational and generative processes in biological life: a cycle which inspires thoughts on mineral and human coevolution and contributes to a debate that redefines the separation between life and non-life.