Elswhere Everywhere / Ailleurs partout
by Isabelle Ingold and Vivianne Perelmuter
(Documentary, Belgium, 2020, 62’, C, En ST)
A computer screen, images from the four corners of the world. We cross borders in one-click while another trip’s story reaches us in bits, through text messages, chats, phone conversations, and an immigration office questionnaire. It’s the journey of Shahin, a 20-year-old Iranian boy who, fleeing his country alone, lands in Greece, then winds his way to England where he claims asylum.
“The story of an Iranian immigrant, Shahin, is not only a personal tale, but a universal story of the declassed, the invisible, errant people who live in an eternal limbo, in transit through their land to a new land which is inherently hostile. Images, conversations, thoughts, they are all intertwined in Elsewhere, Everywhere as a strong poetic/intimate/political work of what we don’t want, or don’t get to watch, a work that challenges us as spectators through feeds of webcams and the internet, to find the humanity behind the pixel, the poor image, to find the presence of the other in our lives.” desistfilm.com