Passage Variations; An Elliptical History of Migration in Eleonas
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London Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 02.32
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- Q - Digital or visual media
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- 2020
- URL
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https://issuu.com/arts_londonmet/docs/arkomanis_passage_variations__v2_
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Passage Variations examines, through film, the spatial qualities of the Eleonas refugee camp in Athens and their narrative potential. This practice-led research draws on spatial observation in order to devise a methodology for filming in refugee camps. The aim of this methodology is to integrate testimony, earlier histories of migration and literary accounts into the present image of the camp as captured on film through the following key research questions;
How can the histories of refugeeism and migration in the area of Eleonas be brought forward through the filming in the refugee camp?
How can the given layout and spatial qualities of the camp aid the integration of the aforementioned histories in the film’s narrative?
What methodology can be devised that may be employed by visual anthropologists, visual artists and historians working with moving image, in exploring the narrative potential afforded by similar environments?
Filming, interviews and writing were used as principal methods. Transposing filmic observation into writing entailed redactions, but also rationalisation and new focal points—earlier histories of migration in particular—which then informed the editing of the film. This process, which is documented in the article ‘Passage Variations: An Elliptical History of Migration in Eleonas’, led to devising a methodology for integrating these histories in the film.
Passage Variations has been screened internationally (Tacoma Film Festival) and further contextualised in published journal articles (Architecture and Culture), book chapters (Spaces of Tolerance, Migrations in New Cinema) and conference presentations (RAI Film Festival Conference), as detailed in the Dissemination section of this document.
The devised methodology bridges a gap between knowledge and practice; it identifies ways in which neglected, or scarcely documented histories and accounts can be foregrounded in film, and when dealing with the particular type of spatial and social environment that is the refugee camp.
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