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Based on civil and military footage of border control cameras these digitally altered videos depicting crossings at the Mexico/USA border (North-/Southmerica) and Melilla border (Africa/Europa) focus on the actual act of frontier crossing itself. 
Various degrees of pixelation through gif-algoythm compression, reduced to pure black and white images, esect the individuals out of their specific context, floating on black – alluding to old, flat computer games – deconstructing the scene to its basic movements, dynamics and shapes, turning it into an abstract, anonymous, partly irrecognizable, inapprehensible choreography of white pixelated abstract 2D-figures in motion. 

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