Film, 17 min
(2009)

“I never thought of it being just a documentary, the filming started unexpectedly inside my car.
We were going to the centre of Athens to covertly receive a newly arrived immigrant in exchange for 8.000€”

2755 MILES is based on forms of experimental documentary practice.
It is called 2755 MILES because of the distance between Pakistan and Greece
that illegal immigrants have to cover through their movement from the East to the West.
It is a ‘film-journey’ that travels through and interacts with the migrant communities at the outskirts of Athens.
In an area divided between the rural and the urban, the primitive and the civilized, within a horse-riding club next to the city’s airport.
Moreover, the project attempts to question our understandings of ‘travel’, ‘movement’ and ‘distance’, as a westernized audience.

Awarded with:
BEST VIDEO ART at London Greek Film Festival, UK (Oct 2009)
HONORARY DISTINCTION FOR NEW DIRECTORS-IEK DOMI at the 'DOCFEST 3 Greek Documentary Festival of Xalkida' (Oct 2009),
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD at the '4th CRASHFEST Film Festival' (June 2009)