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I have asked inhabitants of Aida Camp, Bethlehem, to draw maps of what they see around them. The drawing process as well as the stories related to those subjective geographies have been recorded on video. Through six chapters that form as many potentially independent short films, step by step you?ll discover the refugee camp and it?s surroundings, you?ll follow the routes of some persons and their adventurous attempts to deal with the state of siege they live under. Let?s call it a tribute to resistance by going around obstacles, in times where the very possibility of that resistance seems to be vanishing.

Till Roeskens, born in 1974 in Freiburg (Germany), lives in Marseille. Amateur of applied geography, Till Roeskens, as an artist, belongs to the family of explorers. His work develops in the confrontation with a given territory and those who try to draw their own ways within it. What he brings back from his explorations, be it a book, a video film, a slide show lecture or other light forms, is never meant to be a simple report, but an invitation to exercice one?s perception, a questioning about what we are able to seize from the infinite complexity of the world. His «attempts to find his bearings» are done with a constant concern to touch an uninformed audience and to make them become co-authors of the work. Exercises his art all around France, e.g. at Plateau arts center in Paris, Forteresse de Salses, Villa Saint Clair, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and CEAAC Strasbourg (City of Strasbourg Arts Prize), Language Plus (Quebec), Museum of Modern Art Collioure (Collioure Prize), diverse Regional Art Funds: Alsace, Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence where he is presently working on his first full-length documentary film.