Dar-el-Beida
Passports and life-saving documents slip like play money through the hands of scrupulous string-pullers and corrupt border officials. People are moved around like chess pieces. Not only do impenetrable clouds issue from steam locomotives and aeroplanes, but a thick haze of smoke hangs around the noses of those in transit who wait in fear and who are the objects of business and merciless games. Dar-el-Beida intensifies the threatening clutches of an omnipresent power which lies in wait for refugees in train stations, waiting rooms, police stations, embassies and offices. In a short but insistent re-working of picture and sound...
Orig. Title
Dar-el-Beida
Dar-el-Beida
Year
1996
1996
Country
Austria
Austria
Duration
2 min 40 sec
2 min 40 sec