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Filmography

14 Kilómetros. Directed by Gerardo Olivares, 2007.

Atlantique. Directed by Mati Diop, 2019. 

Biutiful. Directed by Iñárritu, González, 2011.

The People Behind the Scenes. Directed by Elsa Gomis, 2019.

The Left-To-Die Boat. Directed by Charles Heller, 2012.

La Pirogue. Directed by Moussa Touré, 2012.

Le Temps des égarés. Directed by Virginie Sauveur, 2017.

Le Voyage dans la boîte. Directed by Amine Sabir, 2014.

Retorno a Hansala. Directed by Chus Gutiérrez, 2008.

 

Graphic Novels and webcomics

 

Abirached, Zeina. Mourir, partir, revenir : Le jeu des hirondelles. Paris : Cambourakis, 2017.

Colfer, Eoin, et al. Illegal: a Graphic Novel Telling One Boy's Epic Journey to Europe. Hachette Children's Group, 2018. 

Dürr, Morten, and Lars Horneman.  Zenobia. Triangle Square, 2018. 

Greder, Armin. The Mediterranean. Allen & Unwin, 2018.

Hosseini, Khaled. Sea Prayer. Riverhead Books, 2018.

Le, Nam. The Boat, adapted by Matt Huynh. SBS, 2009. http://www.sbs.com.au/theboat/.

Masson, Charles. Droit du Sol. Tournai: Casterman, 2009.

Nazarro, Sergio. Mediterraneo. Round Robin Editrice, 2018.

Pollock, Lindsay. A Perilous Journey, Hasko. PositiveNegatives, London: UK. 2015.

Stassen, Jean-Philippe. Comb Jesus et Autres Reportages Africains. Paris: Futuropolis, 2015.

Zabus, Vincent & Hippolyte. Les Ombres. Paris: Phébus, 2013.

 

 

Podcast

 

Lazali, Karima, Absent-e-s et survivant-e-s : Documenter l’effacement, conference held at Le Bal, Paris, 2019.

https://www.le-bal.fr/2019/01/absentes-et-survivantes-documenter-leffacement

 

 

 

Art works

Adel Abdessemed, Hope, 2011-2012. https://www.adelabdessemed.com/selected-works/hope/

Cennetoğlu, Banu, The List, 1993-2018. https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/banu-cennetoglus-list-reveals-34361-refugees-migrants-died-borders-europe-since-1993/

“Documenting Migrant Deaths in the Mediterranean: In Pictures.” The Guardian, 8 June 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jun/08/documenting-migrant-deaths-in-the-mediterranean-max-hirzel-sink-without-trace-in-pictures

Edwards, Stuart. “Photos, Clothes and Bones: Identifying Migrants Lost at Sea.” WORLDCRUNCH, 22 Nov 2018, https://worldcrunch.com/migrant-lives-1/photos-clothes-and-bones-identifying-migrants-lost-at-sea.

Enrique Ramirez, Incertains, 2020. http://www.enriqueramirez.net/portfolio-item/incertains/

(https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/magazine/article/enrique-ramirez-je-crois-en-la-poesie)

Hostile terrain 94. https://www.undocumentedmigrationproject.org/hostileterrain94

Persona Grata, 16 Oct, 2018 - 24 Feb, 2019. MAC VAL, France. http://www.macval.fr/Persona-grata-279

Sink Without Trace: Exhibition on Migrant Deaths at Sea, 13 Jun. 2019 - 13 Jul 2019. P21 Gallery, London. https://www.sinkwithouttrace.com/.

Soliman, Francesca. “In the Name of Art? The Commercialization of Migrant Deaths.” Border Criminologies Blog, 4 Jun 2019, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2019/06/name-art.

The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, 22 Jun, 2019 - 22 Sep, 2019. The Phillips Collection, Washington. https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2019-06-22-warmth-other-suns-stories-global-displacement.

Undocumented Migration Project. https://www.undocumentedmigrationproject.org/
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ixPqVhU9g : video Introducing the Undocumented Migration Project & Hostile Terrain 94 with Jason De León, Michael Wells, Austin, Shipman, Nicole Smith, and Gabriel Canter. )

When Home Won’t Let You Stay show, 5 Feb, 2021–30 May, 2021. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford. https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/when-home-wont-let-you-stay-migration-through-contemporary-art

Ziegler, Zac. “Artist Makes Marking Migrant Death Sites his Mission.” KNAU, 3 May 2019, https://www.knau.org/post/artist-makes-marking-migrant-death-sites-his-mission.

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