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The film is based on forms of experimental documentary practice. Its title reflects the distance between Pakistan and Greece that clandestine migrants have to cover through their movement from the East to the West. The opening and closing scenes of the film take place inside a car and present footage of the journey that Pakistani men and myself made to the centre of Athens to covertly receive a newly arrived migrant who entered the country through smuggling networks. The narrative of the film is located on the outskirts of Athens where Pakistani male communities live and work undercover within a horse-riding club next to the city?s airport. The project attempts to question notions of travel, movement and distance outside a westernised perspective by concentrating on a terrain vague. Through the travelling camera, the film documents the ?invisible? sub-geographies of the urban landscape in one of Europe?s capitals.

Janis Rafailidou (1984, Athens) the last nine years lives in UK. She studies as a PhD researcher on contemporary forms of video-installation art and experimental documentary practice in Fine Art, at the University of Leeds; awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has participated in exhibitions in Greece and UK, with her latest participation at the Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art 2009. Her practice-based PhD research is presented this year in Manifesta 8, Murcia. Further information on her work can been found at: www.janisrafailidou.co.uk