Migration, Sex, History: Africa/Europe.
A Research into Labor, Theory, Activism and Migration from Africa into Europe in the 21st Century.(Why is Africa cursed in Europe?)
FILM by Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid + Tjaša Kancler (Slovenia, Austria, Spain) (2014)
Let’s say “Each generation necessarily engages in a process of rewriting/reconstituting the past. Film makers have to paint their own landscapes; they must breathe new life into each moment in cinema. That can only be achieved when practitioners have mapped out the field of visual representations and the film techniques they wish to deploy.” – Reece Augiste, Member Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC)
Departing from a tradition in politically engaged art experimental projects, we want to make a film to reflect on Europe and its borders, elaborating different conditions for living and acting. This is coming as an imperative. It is a question of establishing new possibilities for forming a different, but counter, almost bastard, dissident history of Europe, better to say of EU, that is, of migration, empowerment and reflection. Transsexual and defiant. The film strives to produce another history and to delink itself from conventionality of the melodramatic language and narratives presented by official film productions.
