Geology of Separation

Abderrahmane has been living in the Alps in northern Italy for six months in a former family-run hotel converted into a temporary reception center for asylum seekers. In the room opposite his, lives Laly. Laly does not know yet his destiny, but soon there will be the Italian-French border and its giant mountains from which one sometimes hears a shrill cry: an elegy, which crosses the dislocated territories of migration, those that separate the south from the north, the sky from the earth. In this so human story of the eye, the tragedy of the original soil appears in the background, the one of Pangea or separation of Earth.

The screening of GEOLOGY OF SEPARATION takes place in the framework of the “Study Days Territories of Paranational Cinema”, a cooperation between Kulturwissenschaftliche Filmforschung at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the SNSF-funded research project “Paranational Cinema–Legacies and Practices” at the Department of Film Studies, University of Zurich, organized by Brigitta Kuster (HU) and Philip Widmann (UZH) and is supported by a strategic partnership grant from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.