A movie directed by Pavel Borecký and produced by the Institute of social anthropology of the Bern University
“In the Devil’s Garden” (0h25) – 2018
Movie available here (password : supportsahrawis) : https://vimeo.com/338944293
• SYNOPSIS : A movie shot in the Tinduf refugee camps, South-West of Algeria
The movie places the audience in the improvised space of an Algerian animal market. Wavering between the feeding and the wait, we begin to pay attention to the bodies of goats and camels, the oldest companions of Arab men. As we dive further into the desert, the place changes into a sacrificial area and reveals its dark geopolitical secrets. This sensory ethnographic movie goads the audience into questionning the triviality of mobility, entrapment and exploitation in an out-of-sight territory.
“In the Devil’s Garden ” is an additional piece to “Solaris” (2015, 25 min) et “Living Water” (2020, 77 min). It completes the trilogy on late capitalist modernity by gathering three distinct places – a mall, a refugee camp and an extraction site.
• ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Pavel Borecký (Prague, 1986) is a social anthropologist and audiovisual ethnographer. He has a Master’s degree in sustainable development sciences as well as in social athropology, and he directed several primary and applied research projects about ethnobotany (Peru), the strengthening of civil society (Estonia) and urban development (The Czech Republic – Anthropology).
To know more about him, click on the link to his website.
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