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Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen
‘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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‘Locked out in nature’
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| Subtitle |
Films on the European Asylum System, Latent Violence, and Ghosts
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| Author(s) |
Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen
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| Description |
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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Berlin
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| Publisher |
ICI Berlin Press
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| Date |
2020
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| Subject |
Nature images
European asylum system
refugees
Hannah Arendt
documentary
experimental video
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| Rights |
© by the author
Except for images or otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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yes
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| Language |
en-GB
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| short title |
Locked out in nature
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| page start |
207
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| page end |
225
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| Source |
Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 207–25
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