Uprooting, it is a project in fishings villages of northern Chile, at Tarapacá Region, after the observation of the processes of extracting black seaweed, who have been doing collectors since the last decade, in process of the devastation of the ecological environment increased by the industry behind extractivism and surplus value. This observation-research was derived from a visual story through a video between documentary and fiction and the articulation of different daily objects to generate different symbolic relations between man and his environment.