nocturne (lampedusa – fort europa)

For some years, nighttime has had a tragic connotation on the Italian island of Lampedusa. This handful of rocks (less than 20 square km large) situated south of Sicily is the closest European point to the north of the African continent. Once a town of fishermen, now a tourist resort. Its extraordinary history recently came to a new chapter with the continuous arrival of refugees, clandestini, from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Each year thousands of asylum seekers risk their live in an attempt to reach Europe, the Promised Land. At night, an infrared camera registers several spots on and around the island, in search for traces of this hallucinating story.