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Refugee film for King’s Cross commuters

By The Art Newspaper
26 July 2017
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Visitors passing through King’s Cross Station this autumn will see a new, 12-minute film by the artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin. The piece, entitled The Bureaucracy of Angels, focuses on the demolition of 100 boats in Sicily used to transport thousands of refugees fleeing from North Africa. “The artists visited Sicily a number of times where they were able to explore the area where migrants arrive from perilous journeys across the Mediterranean,” a press statement says. The duo filmed the rescue missions organised by the Migrant Offshore Aid Station foundation off the coast of Libya, as well as the destruction of the dilapidated boats left in a shipping grave yard in Porto Pozallo in Sicily. The Art on the Underground film commission, unveiled in September, will be shown in a space near to the Eurostar exit. 

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