Transit migration through the Sahara is a large-scale collective experience that is best understood, perhaps, in its systemic dimension. Highly adjustable, these movements have generated prolific operational networks, systems of information and social organization among fellow migrants as well as interaction with local populations. The long-term video research Sahara Chronicle (2006-2009) works with a notion of geography both as social practice and organizing system. The project is an open anthology of videos on the modalities of migration across the Sahara. It introduces the migration system as an arrangement of pivotal sites, each of which having a particular function in the striving for migratory autonomy, as well as in the attempts made by diverse authorities to contain and manage these movements.
An informal, small-scale gathering to pick up the previous day's discussion, continue to explore some aspects and introduce new ones.
An informal, small-scale gathering to pick up the previous day's discussion, continue to explore some aspects and introduce new ones.
An informal, small-scale gathering to pick up the previous day's
discussion, continue to explore some aspects and introduce new ones.
An informal, small-scale gathering to pick up the previous day's
discussion, continue to explore some aspects and introduce new ones.
Precise screening times are not specified because the visions (videos) listed below, in order of appearance, will be interwoven with sounds, texts, silence, and darkness... charting the path of each evening's rite of passage each.
Sounds by Carlos Gomez, Victor Turull with the collaboration of Anima Quarz, Halil Bárcena.
Precise screening times are not specified because the visions (videos) listed below, in order of appearance, will be interwoven with sounds, texts, silence, and darkness... charting the path of each evening's rite of passage each.
Sounds by Carlos Gomez, Victor Turull with the collaboration of Anima Quarz, Halil Bàrcena.
Groups of the young urban gang members known as Maras control the streets of Guatemala. There are currently an estimated 175.000 "Mareros" in the country today, and the numbers keep growing. Unemployment, alienation and a lack of affection are driving more and more children young people to join these groups (most which engage in criminal activity) in search of support.