Some days ago, at the end of summer, I visited Moria. The weather was still nice and many boats landed on Lesvos’ shore despite the island being called Europe’s hell. Frequent reports have been published recently on inhumane and unsafe condition there. The capacity of Moria camp is triple over capacity so a makeshift settlement in the surrounding olive grove is expanding. Newly arrived people make all possible efforts to built shelters with small tents, pieces of foil and olive branches. Struggle to survive and preserve dignity.
Amidst an idyllic beauty of the olive grove intrusive questions raised:
How is to be a father when the house you can build collapses like a house of cards with the first storm?
How is to be a kid when your parents can’t perform their parenthood?
How is to grow up when your mother is wearing a diaper which function is to protect from rape?
What world is to be learnt?
How many winters will you live in a tent?
02 October 2018
By the time this film has been realised many of the shelters build with painful tenderness have been severely destroyed with the first autumn storm that hit the island a few days after I filmed in the olive grove.
