'Locked out in nature' : films on the European asylum system, latent violence, and ghosts

  • Following Hannah Arendt's remarks on refugee camps as spaces of 'worldlessness', I examine how, in films on European asylum facilities, systemic violence 'makes itself known' in images of nature. Nature separates and isolates ("La Forteresse", "Forst"), it constitutes a sphere of domination and control ("View from Above"), and it functions directly as a murder weapon ("Purple Sea"). Nature, in these films, indicates the Outside within, haunted by the latent and ghostly presence of systemic violence.

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Author:Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-567527
URL:https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-17/michaelsen_locked-out-in-nature.pdf
DOI:https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-17_10
ISBN:978-3-96558-009-1
ISBN:978-3-96558-010-7
ISSN:2627-731X
Parent Title (English):Weathering : Ecologies of Exposure / Herausgeber: Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Arnd Wedemeyer ; Cultural Inquiry ; 17
Publisher:ICI Berlin Press
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2020/11/02
Year of first Publication:2020
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2020/11/23
Tag:Documentary; European asylum system; Experimental video; Nature images; Refugees
GND Keyword:Arendt, Hannah; Naturdarstellung; Film; Asylpolitik; Europa; Flüchtling
Page Number:19
First Page:208
Last Page:225
Note:
Except for images or otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
HeBIS-PPN:473425386
Dewey Decimal Classification:7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 791 Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk
8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
Sammlungen:CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Sammlung Musik, Theater, Film / Literatur zum Film
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin
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