Berlinale Forum Expanded: Part of the Problem

As part of the Berlinale Forum Expanded group exhibition, Forensic Architecture presents Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea, which meticulously reconstruct an accident involving a boat full of migrants close to the European coast. The work is based on video material recorded by artist and survivor Amel Alzakout as the boat was sinking. How such images are to be dealt with and the relationship between them and their history is the theme of Amel’s own film Purple Sea, a collaboration with filmmaker Khaled Abdulwahed made beforehand.