In 2002, Laura Waddington spent months in the fields around Sangatte Red Cross camp, France with Afghan and Iraqi refugees, who were trying to cross the channel tunnel to England. Filmed at night with a small video camera, the figures lit only by the distant car headlights on the motorways, Border is a personal account of the refugees' plight and the police violence that followed the camp's closure.
France/ UK, 2004, 27 min. PAL, Colour, Stereo
Directed, Produced, Written, Camera, Edited: Laura Waddington
Co-produced: Love Streams Agnes b. Paris
Music: Simon Fisher Turner
Grand Prix Experimental-essai-art video, Cote Court, France 2005
First Prize Videoex 2005, Festival of Experimental Film and Video Zurich, Switzerland
Special Mention Ecumenical Jury, The 51st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany 2005
Premiere: The 57th Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, 2004
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