Newsreel 2021 – Here I Have Picture

DUTCH PREMIERE

A glimpse into the makeshift dwellings of people in unofficial refugee camps in the forests along the European Union borders.

Here I Have Picture gives a glimpse into the lives of people on the move, hiding in unofficial camps created in the forests along the European Union’s border. The film observes these makeshift dwellings not simply as fragile shelters, but as peculiar robust structures with a creature-like presence, Tom Holert describes. Through the camera, they appear to interact with their surroundings − the trees, soil, sun and snow − in a choreography of scarcity, fragility and inventiveness.

SCREENINGS

Friday 6 November 18:30 (Between Film and Art 1)

Programme section(s): Between Film and Art
Original title: Obzornik 2021 – Tukaj imam sliko | Year: 2022 | Runtime: 18′
Country: Slovenia | Language: – | Subtitles: English
Featuring: Adrohman Begym, Jahangir Alom Sumon, Ahmed Kawsar, Hussain Tahsan
Director: Nika Autor | Production: Newsreel Front | Editing: Nika Autor | Sound: Matevž Kolenc | Translation: Maja Lovrenov

FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION) 

MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, 2022 – World Premiere | Slovenska kinoteka, Ljubljana, 2024 | Columbia University, New York, 2024 | Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana, 2024

DIRECTOR’S BIO 

Nika Autor is part of the collective Newsreel Front (Obzorniška Fronta). Her artistic practice is primarily based on experimental video and documentary film, film essays, and spatial video installations. Her work deals with migration policies, workers’ rights, and the politics of memory.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and finished her practice-based PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her work has been exhibited in various international museums, galleries and festivals such as Jeu de Paume Paris, MAXXI Rome, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, ARS Electronica, TIFF, JEUNJ Korea, Viennale and others. Nika represented Slovenia at the Venice Biennale in 2017 and was the winner of the Found Footage Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2018.