Not Waving, but Drowning (2009)

Not Waving, but Drowning plot

Not Waving, But Drowning depicts the experience of Indian refugees during their arrest and detention by the shipping police in Zeebrugge, Belgium. In the oppressive, ghostly context of the harbor and the coast, we slowly lose all notion of time and space together with them. Without examining their past or their future, the role of the people smugglers or the Belgian legislation, Elias Grootaers makes the crossing into the timelessness in which our society locks up these sans-papers. Narrow spaces and the sea as an impenetrable and impenetrable wall form the non-zones of the refugees, dike walks and coffee chat evoke the recreational community on the coast, while the harbor with its endless metal rumble could form the gateway between the two worlds. This subtle analysis of human exclusion and the reduction of human beings to their physical bodies makes us question whether humans can be illegal at all.

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