Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Shatila-Lost Island, 2016, 20:00 “It was a wonderful sunny afternoon, time for dreaming when my Palestinian guide catched me from the hotel in downtown Beirut. We were riding with his car about a quater…
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Paolo Bandinu (Italy) – No Country, 2015, 2: 21 “world-views and out of this world” Concept: No country – The job tries to rebuild through visions from the world, a story, a trip, a path that leads us to a…
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Aline Biasutto (France) – The Sirens Chant, 2013, 11’02 The Sirens Chant engages a poetic process of actualization with all of its complexities. The Mediterranean—a territorial entity bounded and open through actual borders and divided into discreet national cultures- is…
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Farid Hamedi (Rohina) (Iran) – The Smoke and the Dream, 2015, 13:24 Using the principle of hermeneutics, the artist addresses the semiotics of the refugees’ battle for survival against brutalities forcing them to leave their homeland. He uses symbols such…
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Inês von Bonhorst (Portugal) – “Impetus”, 2013, 7.29 Impetus is a circle where the life and death meet in the same place. We born, grow up, get old and die, a routine of time, a live circle. The seconds, minutes…
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Samantha Harvey (UK) – Borderline_, 2015 , 2:46 borerline_ is an open source film, with open access for anyone to download and share (non-commercially) as they wish. The intention of the film is to create an environment in which it…
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Quentin Bruno & Clé Hunnigan (Belgium)- Lost in the Jungle, 2015, 6:42 Over the past few weeks, Kid Lost have had the opportunity to explore one of Europe’s most famous refugee camps- The Jungle in Calais, France. In one of…
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RC Campos (Ruy Cézar Campos Figueiredo)(Brazil) – Throwtogetherness, 2014, 00:03:49 Navigating through shattered illusions, a displaced body mourns the displacement, the repression and neglection of many other bodies. RC Campos Bachelor in Audiovisual and New Media (2015), i’m looking for…
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Cristobal Catalan (Spain) – Res Nullius, 2014, 3:46 ‘Res Nullius’, Latin for ‘no-body’s body’ or ‘no-body’s property’, explores forms and syntax of the ‘refugee’. Made entirely of still images of the human body, this short piece is a surreal journey…
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Zlatko Cosic (Bosnia) – South Slavic Requiem, 2015, 6:00 South Slavic Requiem concludes a series of art projects related to the War in Yugoslavia but also opens up new territories to address current political and social issues. In remembrance of…
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Manuel Granados (Spain) – Dancing Man, 2015, 1′ 07″ Human being as a piece of the geopolitics interests losing his/her identity and rights. Manuel Granados He was born in 1965 in Spain. He started working as a painter artist in…
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Stephan Groß (Germany) – “Love in the time of the EU”, 2014, 5:57 A rich and sluggish consumer society endangered by aging is closing its doors against a young hungry world in which survival can only be ensured with high…
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Beate Hecher/Markus Keim (Austria) – Mare Mediterraneum, 2015, 9:00 mare meditenaneum describes the dangerous crossing of people fleeing to Europe in 7 short experimental sequences. Beate Hecher was born in 1972 (Austria), studied in Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and…
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Paul Heintz (France) – Nearer to You, 2014, 3:06 The main character of this video is a piece of music : Nearer, My God, To thee. This melody, which was one of the last to be played on the the…
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Amir Kabir Jabari (Iran) – Domiz Camp, 2015, 3:11 In one hand lots of rules which makes limitations for independent artists and millions of selfi images in virtual word with my self interest about war and refugees , in other…
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Haleh Jamali (UK) – Crossing the line, 2016, 5:40 This video focuses on how identity, is unavoidable part of our lives since we are born. How external factors have a great impact on how we perceive ourselves .How identity can…
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Panagiotis Kalos (Greece) – Gasping for Air, 2015, 1:36 This is a video performance recreating the hard and dangerous gateway of Syrian refugees from the coasts of turkey to the Greek islands. With my performance I’ m trying to recreate…
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Anni Kaltsidou (Greece) – The Refugees, 2015, 2:48 The seas have flooded with pain, lost hopes, lost lives. Inhospitable, they drown any warmth, protection, civilization. Their border-waves are too difficult to cross. Anni Kaltsidou was born, lives and works in…
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Fenia Kotsopoulou (Greece) – Borderline, 2015, 3:06 “Where should we go after the last frontiers? Where should the birds fly after the last sky?” by Mahmoud Darwish. While the West still struggles to find solutions to the “refugee crisis”, the…
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Anna Knappe (Finland/Norway) – Three Ways to Escape – Mohajer, I (Amir), 2012, 07:08 Three ways to Escape tells the story of three Afghan men who have applied asylum from Finland. The first video is about Amir, who has received…
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Mariken Kramer (Norway) – “Patterns of Inclusion”, 2013, 9:36 “Patterns of Inclusion” is produced in collaboration with students and teachers at Sofienberg Secondary School, a school with youth who have a minority background and short residence in Norway. The students’…
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Hermes Mangialardo (Italy) – Frontiers, 2011, 2:40 Two children wants to play together, but a wall grow up and create a frontier Hermes Mangialardo Hi, I was born in 1975 in Copertino, a little town in the south of Italy….
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Miss Muffett aka Lisa Seidenberg (USA) – Flight, 2015, 3:51 Poetry video looks at European refugee situation. Miss Muffett aka Lisa Seidenberg Independent video artist and filmmaker;. My work is concerned with issues of culture and history, especially mass media…
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Brigitte Neufeldt (Germany) – Mr Paulos Yacob, 2015, 25:15 In his statement -mr p.yacob told about his flight, his problems in germany and to be a refugee without even rudimental rights. Brigitte Neufeldt born in wilhelmshaven / germany fine art…
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Pekka Niskanen (Finland) – Laoufi, in Konnunsuo detention unit, 2015, 10:00 The principal character of the video is Lauofi Nasreddine, an Algerian man. He is trying to meet for the first time his two year daughter who is living in…
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Nelton Pellenz (Brazil) – Atlantic – Atlântico, 2015, 08’08” In ‘Atlantic’, the water is associated with life, Here, the human epopee occurs in a mild form and at the same time, tense, with passages marked by the apparition, by adhesion;…
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William Peña Vega (Colombia) – Unknown Street / Calle Desconocida, 2006, 7:15 people in the streets, noise, chaos, money; everything moves fast, even for those who don’t belong here. Their gazes tell us about their emotions, but we don’t know…
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Maciej Piatek (Poland) – Love in the age of the EU / United Kingdom /2014, 2,25 This film is based on a festival poem “Love in the Age of the EU” by Björn Kuhligk commissioned by Zebra Film Festival 2014….
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Rrose Present (Spain) – ODE Europe II, 2014 , 03:12 Series: Video “without-camera” reinterprets “camera-world” A journey through sound and image processing referencing filmic imagery of the cultural construction of Europe, imagery that contrasts with the “visual” content of moving…
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Mauricio Saenz (Mexico) – Flight simulator, 2014, 4:17 “Flight simulator” explores the concept of obstruction as a result of geographic borders and their given limits. By means of images generated at the banks of the Bravo River, in the Matamoros,…
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[ Ausin Sainz (Spain) – Land, 2015, 3:52 LAND, sometimes referred to as dry land, is the solid surface of the Earth that is not permanently covered by water. The vast majority of human activity occurs in land areas that…
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Ayelet Salter (Israel)- Vermeer in The West Bank, 2006, 3:28 My work explores the place of women in history and how the status of women in Israel compares to the reality depicted in the work of the Dutch painter Jan…
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Gabriele Stellbaum (Germany) – Song of Myself, 2015, 1:54 “Song of Myself” focuses on the home coming of an American soldier. In slow motion it repeats the reunion of the family, while flash backs of the aftermath of his war…
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George Symeonidis, Artemis Stathakou (Greece) – “Refugee”, 2015, 04:08 In ancient Greece, hospitality was a great virtue and god Zeus was the protector of the foreigners. In this ancient culture, a refugee treated as a holy person. Today, there are…
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Jan Szewczyk (Poland) – Day of Rage, 2011, 02:58 The Day of Rage video was shot during a rock-climbing trip to the Todra Canyon in Morocco. One day, while standing on a stone ledge situated under one of the climbing…
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Karin Till (Australia) – Walk The Talk, 2015, 2: 46 I experienced the refugee problem firsthand on Lesbos in July 2015. Later in Germany I walked along the engraved text of Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights….
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Theodoris Trampas (Greece) – Scorched Earth, 2015, 14:53 Scorched Earth is a video performance art dealing with the bloody issue of migration and the expatriation of one’s own homeland, when there is no other option left. In this performance I…
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Aliénor Vallet (France) – Chronicle of the 6th reach, 2013, 7:00 A Roma camp settled along the 6th reach of the channel St-Denis lives his last moments. Born in Paris, Aliénor Vallet studied social sciences and audiovisual communication. After a…
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Parya Vatankhah (Iran/France) – Not Read, 2014, 5:14 Not read is a video-performance which artist confronts her past and her present. Writing is a means of expression for exteriorization her emotion of exile somewhere lost. The land is present, our…
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