Five chapters of a film made about the Jungle camp in Calais by deploying a tandem research device. The audio track consists of both field recordings and a spoken narration made up of field notes. They are structured into five chapters each addressing a different theme of difference (or what I have called a/symmetry) identified in the Jungle camp. The first, Space, pairs different landscapes and describes an asymmetry of conditions between the camp and city of Calais, as well as providing an introduction to the deployment of the bike. Tandeming tells the previously discussed story of an encounter with the CRS police to consider distributions of agency on (and off) the tandem bike. The third, Racing, examines a/symmetries in the roles of researcher and researched by telling a story about a race in the camp. Access examines the medium of the film, the relationships formed in the camp, and the process of editing. This film also incorporates footage that K (a former resident) was sending to us of the camp being dismantled and burned. At this time he was also documenting his on-going journey to temporary accommodation in France, which were edited into this chapter. By doing so, we aimed to problematise the a/symmetries of agency in the collaborative production process. Finally a fifth chapter, Use, was added in 2017 documenting the empty camp several months after it had been dismantled in contrast to the previous four. This focussed on several discarded objects left over after the camp was cleared, and the eco-park that was being constructed in its place.

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