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Director's Statement
I tried to look down on the Earth from above. Contemplatively, and far removed from moral judgements. During this exercise men turned into mice. Mice wandering around in circles, driven by fear, hope, or dispassionate pragmatism and surrounded by a strong smell of complacency.
It started in May 2013, with a visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa. There, I met some of the migrants who have landed up there, their hopeful dreams for the future seeming to clash with a Europe that has little to offer them. The power relation I filtered from this personal experience - how the lucky ones treat the desire for luck in others - kept me busy.
I wanted to make the power relationship I observed from a distance (and then later, during the research phase, up close) not so much visible, as feelable, by holding up a mirror for the audience, the refugees and myself. A reflective account on what we in Europe named ‘the refugee crisis’. Since I think it’s not a bad thing to first look at ourselves before we try to represent the suffering of the other.