Janis Rafailidou
Untitled (2755 miles)
  • Untitled (2755 miles)

  • Double-screen video installation
    2009

    Double video projection. The projection on the left, takes place inside a car and presents footage of a journey that two Pakistani men
    and the artist (as the driver) made to the centre of Athens to covertly pick up a newly arrived illegal immigrant, in exchange for €8.000.
    The projection on the right presents the successful return, of the three passengers and the driver.

    In addition, this footage has been used as part of the film 2755 miles, where it functions as a parenthesis to the film's narrative.
    The title, 2755 Miles, reflects the distance between places in Pakistan and Greece that immigrants have to cover through their movement from the East to the West.