Another Dream | Half a Life | They Call Me Asylum Seeker
In her work with new media, Tamara Shogaolu makes politics personal, centering marginalized and underrepresented voices. Leveraging intimate audio accounts of LGBTQ asylum seekers, collected in the Middle East and Europe between the 2011 revolutions and today, the project ‘Queer in a Time of Forced Migration’ combines visceral animation with the latest new-media storytelling techniques, while exploring the meaning of the term ‘home’. The use of animation throughout the project highlights the voices behind these stories, while it also protects their identities, as they share their perspectives on complex and often sensitive topics.
Noorderlicht is showing three parts of her project.
‘Another Dream’ is an animated documentary and VR game in one; a two-person experience. The film tells the love story of a lesbian couple who flee to the Netherlands after the Egyptian revolution of 2011, hoping to find asylum and acceptance. ‘Half a Life’ is a film about the struggles of an Egyptian gay activist and the sound installation and interactive online platform ‘They Call Me Asylum Seeker’ follows four LGBTQ people.
