Short / Experimental
Germany / Italy,
2019, 30 min
Cinematography:
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Evoking the Olympic marathon in Rome 1960 in which Ethiopian Abebe Bikila won Africa’s first gold medal, running barefoot and becoming a sporting legend and symbol of an Africa freeing itself from colonialism in the process, the artists have recontextualised this amidst Rome’s rationalist architecture as a new race involving refugees and immigrants staking a claim to 'freedom of movement': also understood as the possibility of being welcomed in another country. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
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Photo © Maroan el Sani / Nina Fischer