Amidst the Hell that is Moria, Life Flourishes
• The Idomeni refugee camp in Greece. Horrific. An endless sea of tents. People standing in a single file to get their meal. To capture both the start and the end of the line I need to select ‘panorama’ mode on the phone’s camera menu. But that is not the image. The image is a hyacinth. One of the refugees laid it in my hand while passing by. I will never forget how it smelled amidst all that horror. • The Moria refugee camp on Lesbos. A man dug a hole in the ground and made an oven. He is poking it with a thin iron stick and smiling benevolently. He lets us record him. He places bread, still hot from
the oven, in my hand. I am standing in the mud with a microphone in one hand and warm bread in the other, completely speechless. The images and sounds merge, movements become synchronised, scene overpowers scenography. Amidst the hell that is Moria, life flourishes.
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