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The Emerging Art Festival Much More May, organized by the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, on Tuesday, May 7, projected the documentary film 'Emergency exit', which shows the different citizen initiatives to support the refugees and migrants.
The screening will be presented by its director, Juan Zarza. It will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Roman Theater Museum with free admission until full capacity, with the collaboration of the Refugium Project of the University of Murcia.
'Emergency exit' (Spain, 2019), by the Seville-born Juan Zarza, shows different altruistic initiatives arising from citizenship to support refugees and migrants who are trapped in our borders.
It brings together various testimonies recorded on the ground that relate the terrible drama we are currently witnessing and try to find solutions from the theoretical and practical points of view.
Rescue boats, deportation camps, demonstrations and cemeteries are some of the scenarios that are intertwined, giving the viewer a broad perspective of the problem and showing the concern of European citizens to see that their rulers seem to have lost any trace of humanity.
The documentary premiered in February at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
The film reflects the work of activists and professionals from different sectors who try to offer the solidarity that European migration policies have denied to those who arrive in our countries fleeing from death.
Zarza has collected testimonies on the ground that not only tell the drama that these people live, but try to find solutions.
The documentary is shot on rescue boats, deportation camps, demonstrations, cemeteries and other scenarios that give the viewer a broad perspective of the problem and show the concern of European citizenship against the position that governments have maintained.
The film shows reality with crudeness and without artifice, but does not deny the potential of art and poetry and leaves spaces for reflection.
The director affirms that, far from giving a unidirectional vision of the problem and its human drama, it intends to question the spectator as an active subject.
DIRECTOR
Juan Zarza (Sevilla, 1977) came to Madrid to study artistic photography.
His plan was to return to his hometown after completing studies but the emergence of 15M led him to document the work of social movements with his camera.
Collaborator of diverse means and projects since then and founding member of the agency Diso Press, in the summer of 2016 he embarked, next to the journalist Marta Maroto, towards the European east with the Caravan to Greece to record the crisis of the refugees in the Hellenic country.
The result of this trip is his first documentary, Salida de Emergencia
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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