Fucking Paradise | 2009
The film Fucking Paradise, 2009, HD video, 14′ 18″, incorporates excerpts from interviews with asylum seekers from Eritrea, Sudan, Nigeria and Afghanistan and texts from Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, written between 1630-1651, about the Pilgrims’ journey to America. It was filmed in Italy on the islands of Sicily and Lampedusa in 2009.
Fucking Paradise was shown as part of the exhibition Float in Scheltema Complex, Leiden, NL in 2009, and in the exhibition One on One in 2010 at Brno House of Arts in Brno, Czech Republic.