Yovista Ahtajida (Indonesia) – Re-Interpreting Trump, 2016, 1:15 A Young, Moslem, Jihadist tries to re-interpreting Donald Trump Speech. Turns out, it has the same goal, language and gesture even though they were contradicted. Yovista Ahtajida (23) is a video artist…
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Mo’ Mohamed Benhadj (Algeria) – GOD WILL KNOW HIS OWNS, 2014, 08:32 As asphyxiation I move forward, the atmosphere becomes oppressive. The load is too heavy in spite of feeling of power which invades me. I have to liberate myself…
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Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri (Italy) – THE SUN BENEATH THE SEA, 2016, 2:00 Since the beginning of the year, in the Mediterranean sea, more than 3,000 migrants and refugees have perished. Almost of them came from Africa and were fleeing terrible…
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Anna Faroqhi & Haim Peretz (Germany) – LICHTENBERG PUTZT (Lichtenberg Cleans Up), 2016, 4:34 The documentary observes a day at the initial reception for refugees AWO Refugium Lichtenberg. Residents, social workers and staff clean up the premises of the hostel…
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Johannes Christopher Gérard (Germany) – disorientated displacement, 2016, 05:02 The video approach the subjects of disorientation and displacement in a more in metaphoric manner, then rather building up on a realistic narrative story or documentary The work tries to reflect…
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Silvia De Gennaro (Italy) – Home, 2016, 05:53 The escape of a Syrian from the horrors of his land to the best of all possible worlds. Silvia De Gennaro lives and works in Rome, Italy. Since 1999 she is a…
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Florentia Ikonomidou (Greece) – Heart Attack, 2016, 02:44 In September 2015, I was in Lesvos for the organization of an exhibition. I had been, on this island, several times in the past. This time the shock was amazing. As if…
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Maria Korporal (Netherlands) – Stay or fly away?, 2015, 0:49 One of the most neglected aspects about refugees is that they are in a situation of emergency in which they have to take a decision immediately, and whatever they decide,…
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Lucija Konda Labas (Croatia) – We are the dogs – Wir sind Hunde, 2016, 1:11 The work explores the multiple levels of concept of humanity in today’s (post-human) time. In general it comments/criticizes very common inhuman approach and treatment of…
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Les Riches Douaniers (Gilles Richard & Fabrice Zoll) (France) – The Lonely Migrant, 2011, 16:15 Developped by modifying the look of GTA IV, “The Lonely Migrant” is a meditation on transience, mirage, and illusion. Slouching towards the Promised Land, a…
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Nenad Nedeljkov (Serbia) “Passing”, 2016, 3:00 “Stretching of Daily Life” = 4 minutes and 50 seconds, stereo sound “Passing” = 3 minutes, loop playback, no sound Nenad Nedeljkov Born in 1971. in Zrenjanin /Vojvodina, Serbia/. Graduated from Academy of Arts…
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Daniela Lucato (Italy) – When I dance, 2016, 67:00 For a cultural project, four dancers from Israel, Spain and Italy explore and interpret with their bodies the stories of some refugees from Pakistan living in camps outside Berlin. Daniela Lucato…
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Oksana Chepelyk (Ukraine) – «Letter from Ukraine», 2014, 7:31 “Letter from Ukraine” video, fed by obscured history and political urgencies acts as a catalyst for the culturally charged encounters – a shared breath – that materialize in the performance. It…
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Simone Stoll (Germany) – FAREWELL – ABSCHIED, 2016, 06:08 ‘Abschied’ shows the view out of a train into a vast landscape paired with dream-like performance sequences of a woman. Several layers of time run parallel in the video; the journey…
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Gabriele Stellbaum (Germany) – When everything blurs, 2016, 3:16 “When everything blurs” is the second part of “Song of Myself” designated to the Refugee call in 2015. One year after the impeding crisis it is a reflection on the here…
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Isabel Pérez del Pulgar (Spain) – Línea Imaginaria , 2016 , 06:39 There does not exist migratory definitive experience that does not imply painful crises, which deep and lasting effects can spread along the whole life and be transmitted to…
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Daniel Wechsler (Israel) – Exi(s)t, 2016, 01:45 ‘Exi(s)t’ is an undesired transition, a wave in the ocean, a wave of existence. Daniel Wechsler (b. Israel 1982) is an emerging video & print artist, with academic certification in audio engineering (SAE,…
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Mohamed Thara (Morocco) – As Long As I Can Hold My Breath, 2016, 9:40 People in Europe speak currently of the “refugee crisis”, as if the streams of refugees would come by coincidence. In fact, Europe and the old and…
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Jana Wisniewski (Austria) – PROSIT PROFIT, 2016, 02:06 THEY ARE RUNNING…….ALL OVER THE WORLD….. THEY DON´T FIGHT FOR THEIR HOMELAND THEY GO WHERE THE MONEY IS THEY DON´T LIKE YOUR FOOD, YOUR LIFESTYLE, YOUR RELIGION THEY LIKE YOUR MONEY…….. THE…
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Masha Maria Yozefpolsky (Israel) – In Between SiO2, 2016, 10:00 In BetweenSiO2 is a critical video poetry of our turbulent contemporary existence in a world of diminishing resources. This is an era of immeasurable abandonment while ourselves are being stolen…
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Stephen Chen (Canada) – North South, 2013, 05:02 Originally created as a layered personal and political allegory on freedom and repression while living in Singapore, the tape of NORTH SOUTH was one of the few possessions Stephen Chen had when…
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Citron | Lunardi (Selene Citron and Luca Lunardi) (Italy) – Terra!, 2016, 2’54” The video suggests the boarding to a land of dreams, unfulfilled hopes and promises. It is not a reference to the migrations of peoples far away from…
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Monika Zywer (Poland) – Golden Life Jacket, 2016, 01:00 Golden Life Jacket is a symbol of hope, wealth and happiness. For gold in the human history, many people were killed. Monika Zywer I was born in Poland in 1971. I…
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Gabin Cortez Chance (USA) – Ut Fuga Salutem, 2016, 9:59 The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” Karl Marx. All this is true, but is it not also the history of Migration. And in…
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Sana Ghobbeh, Silvia Amancei, Bogdan Armanu (Iran) – Crisis at the Baltic Sea, 2015, 5:18 A happy German couple gets informed that a bomb just arrived in their city. They decide to save their world so, in the end, they…
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. Elena Knox (Australia) – Radical Hospitality, 2014, 6:16 Today’s android hostess is a pre-security measure: a frontline that could, due to its cyborgian, networked status, alert its (puppet)masters to irregularities at the border. Institutionally, wherever a welcoming gesture or…
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Grace Graupe-Pillard (USA) – MOURNING LIGHT, 2010, 4:00 My personal response viewing demonstrations and the desperate living conditions of those who are collateral damage in the conflicts being fought throughout the world. The demonstrators’ chants and bursts of gunfire often…
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Jake Martin Graves (UK) – On the Road to Relief, 2016, 23:00 10,000 refugees stand in the balance between chains of aid workers and a regiment of riot police. These are the stories of how a refugee camp is sustained….
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David Gutema Gamatchis (Hungary) – Traffickers, 2015, 4:18 Hidden camera recording of traffickers from a fake migrant, around hostels being rented by migrants. David Gutema Gamatchis Media artist, living in Budapest. Working at official newspaper called HVG as main cartoonist….
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