{"title":"The Secret Life of Waste: Recycling Dreams of Migration","authors":"Deniz Göktürk","doi":"10.5117/9789463724166_ch07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724166_ch07","url":null,"abstract":"This essay opens up a new perspective on migration through the lens of\u0000 waste, tracing the effects of war, border securitization, and global capitalism\u0000 on a local scale. The analysis of Afganistanbul (2018), a short documentary\u0000 produced by a team at Kadir Has University in Istanbul where the book in\u0000 hand originated, captures the predicament of undocumented waste workers\u0000 in the city who lack the means to continue their journey to Europe or return\u0000 to their homeland, while resources and revenue in the global recycling\u0000 business circulate freely. Following the film in its close-up on a specific site of\u0000 life and labour, this essay teases out competing aspirations among local and\u0000 migrant city dwellers, arguing that representations of migrant experiences\u0000 are prone to the temptation of poverty porn and calling on spectators to\u0000 consider their own implication in interlocking systems of inequity.","PeriodicalId":446435,"journal":{"name":"Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126905967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modes of Self-Representation in the Images Collectively Produced by Migrants in Lésbos Island: Natives of the New World","authors":"Nagehan Uskan","doi":"10.5117/9789463724166_ch02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724166_ch02","url":null,"abstract":"Natives of the New World is a short documentary film shot on cell phones by\u0000 the Kino Mosaik collective, which was founded in Lesbos Island, Greece, in\u0000 2018. The migrants who were members of the collective tried to transform\u0000 the period when they were stuck in Lesbos waiting for the decision on their\u0000 asylum applications into a constitutive process. Kino Mosaik’s main goal\u0000 was to oppose the passive, apolitical, and victimized migrant image created\u0000 by mainstream media and many artistic representations. The collective\u0000 thought that this was possible only from their perspective, and they made\u0000 this film as an action against stereotypical representational systems. In\u0000 the short documentary, not only are the difficult conditions that migrants\u0000 have to deal with made visible but also the forms of collective resistance\u0000 they have developed against them. This article will analyse Natives of The\u0000 New World by comparing it with the representational tools it opposes.","PeriodicalId":446435,"journal":{"name":"Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121435637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Third World On the Move: Cinematic Destination Belgrade/Serbia","authors":"Nevena Daković","doi":"10.5117/9789463724166_ch10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724166_ch10","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to map manifold notions of migrant cinema and\u0000 its history, in other words, film narratives about migrations from, across,\u0000 and to the Balkans. The analysis looks at broader Balkan cinema that\u0000 features as the context for focusing the changes of the migration pattern\u0000 from and to Belgrade. The paper takes Practical Guide to Belgrade with\u0000 Singing and Crying (Praktičan vodič kroz Beograd sa pevanjem i plakanjem,\u0000 Bojan Vuletić, 2011) as its case study to show the recent reversal of migrant\u0000 narratives in which the Balkans are the desired destination, in itself\u0000 an exception to the rule. The analyses are based on the appropriated\u0000 definition of migrant cinema and complemented with notions of inner\u0000 exile and accented cinema.","PeriodicalId":446435,"journal":{"name":"Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128114043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Across the Sonorous Desert: Sounding Migration in El Mar la Mar","authors":"S. Kara","doi":"10.5117/9789463724166_ch04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724166_ch04","url":null,"abstract":"Joshua Bonnetta and J. P. Sniadecki’s El Mar La Mar (2017), an experimental\u0000 documentary on the migrant trail across the Mexico–US border, features\u0000 a striking audiovisual assemblage that gives equal weight to sights and\u0000 sounds, allowing the viewer to contemplate the history of not only the\u0000 cinema of migration but also the various traditions that engage with\u0000 field recordings. This chapter investigates the ways in which the film\u0000 challenges our expectations of what a migrant geography feels like, with\u0000 special attention to the film’s soundtrack, from its contact mic-enabled\u0000 drone sounds to disembodied audio testimonials, and the broader acoustic\u0000 ecology that the film construes (influenced by musique concrète and\u0000 post-Pierre Schaeffer anecdotal sound, in the work of Luc Ferrari).","PeriodicalId":446435,"journal":{"name":"Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114675339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Borderlines of South-Eastern Europe : Migration in the Films of Aida Begić and Želimir Žilnik","authors":"Ivan Leković","doi":"10.5117/9789463724166_ch11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724166_ch11","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses recent works by Aida Begić and Želimir Žilnik—\u0000 Never Leave Me (2017) and The Most Beautiful Country in the World (2018),\u0000 respectively. These works narrate the evolving lives of migrants on the\u0000 borderlines of the Balkan Anatolian region. Migrants’ aspiration to\u0000 reach their “dream land” is interpreted as a journey towards unfolding\u0000 “the virtual realities of consciousness” of both actors and directors. The\u0000 reflections of both Begić and Žilnik on the issue of migration, filmed in\u0000 an accented style, highlight their own post-Yugoslav perspectives, which\u0000 allows us to analyse the two films in context of “return to homeland”—a\u0000 concept present both in Naficy’s theories of an accented cinema and in\u0000 Boym’s notion of “reflective nostalgia.”","PeriodicalId":446435,"journal":{"name":"Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116724191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Waiting in Line, Moving in Circles : Spaces of Instability in Christian Petzold’s Transit","authors":"Eileen Rositzka","doi":"10.5117/9789463724166_ch08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724166_ch08","url":null,"abstract":"Loosely based on a 1944 novel by German writer Anna Seghers and set in\u0000 present-day France, Christian Petzold’s Transit is a story of fateful migration,\u0000 in which conflicting agencies and shifting identities are translated into an\u0000 aesthetic principle. Its fluctuating interrelations between images, texts, and\u0000 temporalities transform the film into an ultimate “non-place,” which, except\u0000 for a few hints at fascism and a refugee crisis, provides no explanation or\u0000 overview of its political implications. Alongside the characters, spectators are\u0000 thrown into a world defined by fragile image spaces and zones of exclusion,\u0000 always haunted by fragments of the past and glimpses of an uncertain future.","PeriodicalId":446435,"journal":{"name":"Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116341156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abstraction, Bare Life, and Counternarratives of Mobility in the Refugee Films of Richard Mosse and Ai Weiwei, Incoming and Human Flow","authors":"R. Burgoyne","doi":"10.5117/9789463724166_ch03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724166_ch03","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the unprecedented formal experiments of Richard\u0000 Mosse and Ai Weiwei in their attempts to capture the signature global\u0000 event of our time, the mass movements of refugees and immigrants across\u0000 geopolitical boundaries. In Mosse’s Incoming, a thermal camera registers\u0000 the heat emanating from human bodies from some 30 miles away, providing\u0000 images of refugees in lifeboats, transport trucks, and refugee camps\u0000 that are both other-worldly, almost mutant in their strangeness, and\u0000 deeply moving—images that rivet the gaze. In Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow,\u0000 drone cameras render the vast scale of human displacement around the\u0000 world—a view from above is interspersed with the close witnessing of cell\u0000 phone video, using the visual language of spontaneous documentation in\u0000 counterpoint with a technology associated with military surveillance. In\u0000 both films, Giorgio Agamben’s concept of “bare life” is articulated within\u0000 an advanced optical and technological framework that brings new critical\u0000 questions into view.","PeriodicalId":446435,"journal":{"name":"Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media","volume":"993 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133305414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dislodged from History, Confronted by Walls : Picturing Migration as a Global Emergency","authors":"D. Apel","doi":"10.5117/9789463724166_ch05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724166_ch05","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines select visual representations of refugees and migrants\u0000 as embodied subjects in photography, art, and video. It focuses on American\u0000 asylum politics and explores the questions of free movement, the right\u0000 to have rights, and the ethics and efficacy of border walls. It argues that\u0000 the catastrophe of global forced displacement makes the elimination of\u0000 national borders and the nation state itself a revolutionary necessity.","PeriodicalId":446435,"journal":{"name":"Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133937682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving Peoples and Motion Pictures: Migration in Film and Other Media","authors":"Dudley Andrew","doi":"10.5117/9789463724166_ch01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724166_ch01","url":null,"abstract":"Nearly from the start, cinema has registered, dramatized, and produced\u0000 images of migration and its attendant anxieties. Indeed, movies have\u0000 been fuelled by the movements of peoples thanks to the striking stories\u0000 and images these always engender. After glancing at two distinct efforts\u0000 in the 1960s in which cinema aimed to capture a mass phenomenon for a\u0000 mass audience (one from Classic Hollywood, the other from the periphery\u0000 of India), I will interrogate 21st-century strategies to come to terms with\u0000 what the art form’s limitations may be. Can cinema get its arms around\u0000 something so complex, multidimensional, and contested as migration?\u0000 Jia Zhangke’s success in bringing internal Chinese migration to light\u0000 may not be easily replicated by filmmakers in other nations faced with\u0000 migration issues that cluster at their borders. Perhaps other art forms are\u0000 naturally more capable in this regard. To isolate what cinema has done\u0000 best, however, I will draw attention to films set on the edges of Europe.","PeriodicalId":446435,"journal":{"name":"Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133980704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abstraction, Bare Life, and Counternarratives of Mobility in the Refugee Films of Richard Mosse and Ai Weiwei, Incoming and Human Flow","authors":"R. Burgoyne","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv29j3djc.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv29j3djc.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":446435,"journal":{"name":"Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121026106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}