Not Waving, But Drowning

Overview

Not Waving, But Drowning materialises the experience of Indian refugees during their arrest and detention by the harbour police in Zeebruges, Belgium. Within the tense, haunted context of the harbour and the seaside, and together with them, we slowly lose all sense of time and place. Without investigating their past or their future, the human traffic organisations or the Belgian legislation, the film transgresses into the timelessness in which our society imprisons people without papers. This subtle analysis of human exclusion and the reduction of human beings to the physical body makes us wonder if a human can be illegal at all?

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 30, 2010

Original language

Dutch

Countries

Belgium

Production

Cassette for Timescapes

Director

Elias Grootaers

Writer

Elias Grootaers

Producer

Emmy Oost

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1594929