2016 / Essay film, 45 min. / Dance performance / France
“Exiles, refugees, undocumented migrants – whatever word we use to talk about it, the movement of human beings across the planet is a millennia-old and repetitive story, following the formations of our civilizations, their catastrophes and sometimes their downfalls.”
By exploring the idea of the traces left by the movement of peoples since millennia, and immersing herself in the current context, Bani Khoshnoudi proposes a new film questioning the ethics of society in the face of the movement of human beings. In parallel with this film, she invited Italian dancer Valentina Campora to probe on stage the gestures and movements of the body (despised, misunderstood, politicized) in transit.
Screenings and installations
HORS PISTES– Centre Pompidou, Paris – May 2016
RedCat Center, Los Angeles – February 2023
60th Biennale di Venezia – 2024, Main Exhibition “Foreigners Everywhere” curated by Adriano Pedrosa within the Disobediance Archive project by curator Marco Scotini
Kunsthall Charlottenburg (Copenhagen) – Exhibited within the Disobediance Archive project by curator Marco Scotini
Written, directed and edited by :
Bani Khoshnoudi
Commissioned by the Centre Georges Pompidou
BANI KHOSHNOUDI 