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In many moving image productions (from documentary film to video art to TV production, music video and feature fiction) the refugee camp features as a site/location or as the stage for the "formatting of migration on screen" (Kuster 2018). In this presentation I want to look at how these sites/stages produce, feature and modulate time as figuration (also in the sense of Norbert Elias as network): as the time of “transit” – the passing through – and of waiting, but also of the doubling of time, of speed, of loopholes and of escape. Examples will include "Lumière Noire" by Med Hondo (1994), "Rien ne vaut que la vie, mais la vie même ne vaut rien" by Brigitta Kuster with Moïse Merlin Mabouna (2002/2003), and "Waiting" by Rashid Masharawi (2005).
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3. Konferenz des Netzwerks Fluchtforschung: Kontexte von Flucht, Schutz und Alltag Geflüchteter