Eternal Scar (Evigt ärr)

Eternal Scar, 78 min, HD-video, 2017,

In 2016, the art education residency Andra ögon på staden(Other Eyes on the City) Johansson was invited to reflect on urban transformation process through her artistic working methods, where one of the works that she produced was a film on the massive resistance-movement against nuclear waste disposal.

Eternal scar, is a film about the environmental movement and the local groups within the Waste Chain-network (Avfallskedjan) that worked in places around Sweden to oppose future test drilling for nuclear waste storage. A larger national network to deal with spent nuclear waste disposal issues was created after the referendum in 1981. As a reaction, there was a huge uprising among ordinary citizens to oppose the nuclear industry's search for suitable disposal. In Kynnefjäll, the locals occupied a mountain for as long as 20 years. In the film, we get to follow several people who were active in the resistance movements around nuclear power and waste management in the 80s with a focus on Sweden and Japan. The story develops the complex technical, geological, socio-political and economic discourses surrounding the nuclear power issue.