We are excited and proud that our fitst ethnographic short “This Week Doesn’t Really Exist” was selected for screening at this years Ethnografilm Festival of Ethnographic Films that will take place between 17 and 20 April at Club de l’Etoile cinéma on 14 Rue Troyon, next to Arc de Triomphe in Paris!
“This Week Doesn’t Really Exist” explores the experiences of cross-border workers and their daily commutes between the regions of Lubuskie in Poland and Brandenburg in Germany. In their narratives, the road emerges as a structuring principle of mobile lives within the ‘inner peripheries’: both the spatial and temporal logic of everyday life, as well as the affective emphasis within the narratives, is centred on travel. While the film’s soundtrack aims to amplify marginalised voices, articulating the spatiotemporal dimensions of cross-border labour, the visuals aim to convey the experience of being on the road, creating a point of convergence between researchers and research participants.
Recommended citation: Goldstein, Piotr, Olga Łojewska, and Maksymilian Awuah. 2024. This Week Doesn’t Really Exist. short ethnographic film. Germany/Poland. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31071.27041
Link to the film is available upon request from the authors. The film is available for free for educational and community purposes.
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