Film

Refugeedom: Lonely But Not Alone

A lesson in looking

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0h 24m

2023

“A lesson in looking”

Synopsis

With the non-existing word “refugee-dom” Lena Verhoeff and I wanted to express the state, emotional and physical, of the life of the refugee on the road. On everyday television, we see images of people walking with luggage and small children and exhausted faces. But our theme was a bit different. The phrase “lonely but not alone” came from an autobiography of former Dutch queen Wilhelmina, published in 1959, to describe her life as always surrounded by a dense crowd of people at court but still, always feeling lonely. The two qualifiers, lonely and alone, which seem to be synonymous, are here, through the conjunction “but”, rather presented as an opposition; an opposition qualifying a non-existing noun.

Director

Mieke Bal

Lena Verhoeff

Drama

Cast & Crew

Sly Maceo Sampimon

as Joseph/Yusuf, the refugee

Catherine Lord

as Potiphar's Wife/Mut Em-Enet

Arthur Clifton

as Bully

Skipper Doornhein

as Bully

Michelle Williams Gamaker

as Voice-over

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