DOVER 82

About the project:

video • 5:30 • UK • no dialogue

In 2024, at least 82 people died crossing the Channel in order to claim asylum in the UK – the deadliest year on record. The natural and built architecture of the liminal port town of Dover – from the white cliffs to the Western Jet Foil tent where surviving refugees are “processed” – embodies the violence and grief etched into the shoreline. An evocative contemplation on the politics and spatiality of bordering, this film archives the sites, textures and architecture of the border infrastructure, taking the abstract into a tactile, urgent confrontation with our complicit relationship to place and violent policing of movement.