Document: Hoyerswerda | Frontex

Thomas Kaske

doi:10.15845/jaf.v3i02.2761

Document: Hoyerswerda | Frontex

Authors

Thomas Kaske Kaske Film

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v3i02.2761

Keywords:

migration, pogrom, GDR, Mozambique, Frontex

Abstract

Four migrants from Mozambique provide eyewitness testimony about the racially motivated attacks that took place in Hoyerswerda, Saxony, in 1991. Their report is read to accompany archive shots, obtained directly in the streets of German city, which are shown in one half of the frame. The other half contains drone surveillance footage obtained by Frontex, the agency responsible for protecting the European Union's borders.

Author Biography

Thomas Kaske, Kaske Film

Thomas Kaske was born in 1984 in East Brandenburg. He studied Cultural Anthropology and Film Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is finishing his M.F.A in Media Art Media Design at Bauhaus University Weimar. He worked for several film festivals and produced short documentaries in Berlin and Vienna.