Swimming not sinking

a short film by: Mehdi Vafajooye Diyanati, Mohamad Matter, Dave Blair Oliphant, Jimmy Loizeau

This is part of a collection of collaborative works is aimed at producing an alternative broadcast genre and is produced with people often described in the news simply as refugees or migrants.

Usually represented in the news through disaster scenarios or in squalid situations, as is tragically a reality for many of the people, this collection of work is produced as a way to present another narrative and some of the other realities often overlooked in mainstream broadcast.

All the work is produced by a broad network of people across Europe, some of whom are migrants and some of whom are not. This network is committed to forms of co-authored broadcast that include film/music/poetry.