FOOD & FOOTAGE: Survival, Sound, and the Politics of Waiting

FOOD & FOOTAGE - Independent films in combination with food

This Jungo Life (director: David Fedele) documents the everyday lives of young Sudanese and South Sudanese refugees living in informal street camps in Morocco. Having escaped the violence in Libya and unable to return home due to the ongoing conflict, they live in an environment characterized by insecurity, police harassment and long waits.

The film is collaborative and was shot entirely by the refugees themselves using cell phones. This methodological decision transforms the documentary from an observational account into a collective act of authorship. The "Jungo" - a term migrants use for temporary street camps - becomes not only a place of hardship, but also of image production, testimony and political visibility.

The screening at ZKU will be followed by a discussion on collaborative filmmaking, the ethics of representation and the media practices of migrants. The program places the film in a larger context and asks who controls narrative authority in contexts of displacement and how self-documentation can function both as a survival strategy and as resistance.