Small Talks Screening Neukolln, Berlin
small talks: location Berlin - a project by Manuela
Johanna Covini
CAMINATA NOCTURNA Two Channel Video Projection. A/V. 22 min.
Karl Ingar Røys Caminata Nocturna documents both the flight and
pursuit of illegal economic migrants across the Mexico-U.S border. Or at
least that's what it initially appears to document. In actuality, the
video depicts a facsimile of such events, a
tourist sideshow put on by the inhabitants of the town of Alberto 2000
kilometres from the border. This adventure holiday allows mainly Mexican
tourists to experience and enjoy-since tourism is always about an
attempt at happiness- something like an illegal
border crossing into the United States. The simulation of migrating
hopes and fears in Alberto began July 2004 as part of the Parque
EcoAlberto, a holiday eco-park established with financing from the
Mexican State. The dual screens of Caminata Nocturna present
sharply edited fragments of bodies running or pushing stealthily
forward, police trucks screeching down roads and the barked bureaucratic
speech of border lockdown amidst a night bisected by the converging
torch light tunnels of flight and pursuit. One screen
is panic and the other screen is pursuit
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Text excerpts from John Cunningham
