The film «Eat Police, Eat ID» was developed over the course of two months in the transit centre of Kemptthal, Canton of Zurich, with asylum seekers. Based on initial settings of figures and costumes, the asylum seekers and children fleshed out a number of characters that seemed defining for their individual situations. Out of these characters various improvised scenes would grow which were eventually linked in a thematic fashion for the video. The key motive in the asylum seekers’ engagement with their fictitious roles was their relationship to state authorities and the retelling of their own biographies, which are constantly being scrutinised and questioned by government agencies during the application procedure. Monitoring and penalties, the wish for security and self-positioning are thematic threads running through the various scenes. The most important screening of the film took place in Kemptthal, in the presence of the contributors themselves.
Cast
Play: Saïdou Bah, Odbaatar Batsuch, Ghassan Ismail, Jawad Ismail, Muhammad Ismail, Valentine Kajura, Diana Pietrasik, Daniel Pietrasik, Dawid Pietrasik, Martin Stojkov, Martina Stojkov and others | camera, cut: Tim Zulauf
Videofilm
24' 19'' minutes, DV-Pal, colour, sound, 2003
Languages
German, English, French, Polish. With German and English subtitles
Exhibitions
«Critique of Pure Image. Between Fake and Quotation» Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7.10. to 8.11. 2005
«Baustelle Schweiz» Zurich, 11.8. to 30.10. 2005, Basle, 11.5. to 2.7. 2006
Videostills: Tim Zulauf
