Shadows across Europe: this segment is made with a good friend, a political refugee from Mali whose identity and whereabouts had to be kept anonymous. Usually in the news, blurring, pixelating, and voice distortion cast a sinister layer over those they attempt to protect. We decided to explore a more playful representation and began to exchange shadows across WhatsApp. These clips, once edited, were passed to a poet from Iran who was staying in the Moria camp. He wrote a poem about the shadow clips, and this was then translated and read out by HDPDT, which is the alias of my anonymous friend.

Shadows across Europe: this segment is made with a good friend, a political refugee from Mali whose identity and whereabouts had to be kept anonymous. Usually in the news, blurring, pixelating, and voice distortion cast a sinister layer over those they attempt to protect. We decided to explore a more playful representation and began to exchange shadows across WhatsApp. These clips, once edited, were passed to a poet from Iran who was staying in the Moria camp. He wrote a poem about the shadow clips, and this was then translated and read out by HDPDT, which is the alias of my anonymous friend.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32979