Transit in Columbia, Athens
Video, Political / Social, Documentary, 7:08
Columbia Records, established in 1930, was the first record company to operate in Greece.
Until it closed down in 1991 it was the preeminent Greek record company and most of the country's big performing artists were signed to the label.
During the seventies many Arab musicians from either Egypt or the Middle East used the studios for their recordings.
In 2009, 200 undocumented migrants squatted the deserted building.
Most of them are Algerians. Nearly all of them want to end up in France or in any of “the big and rich European countries, because in Greece there is not enough work”.
They try their luck at the port of Patras, hiding in containers and trucks hoping that they will manage to get on board a ship to Italy. Most of them after trying for sometime in Patras, they return to the Columbia compound.
I am trying to approach the huge and very complicated problem of immigration through the three elements that form my short film: music, immigration and cultural background of the immigrants.
Until it closed down in 1991 it was the preeminent Greek record company and most of the country's big performing artists were signed to the label.
During the seventies many Arab musicians from either Egypt or the Middle East used the studios for their recordings.
In 2009, 200 undocumented migrants squatted the deserted building.
Most of them are Algerians. Nearly all of them want to end up in France or in any of “the big and rich European countries, because in Greece there is not enough work”.
They try their luck at the port of Patras, hiding in containers and trucks hoping that they will manage to get on board a ship to Italy. Most of them after trying for sometime in Patras, they return to the Columbia compound.
I am trying to approach the huge and very complicated problem of immigration through the three elements that form my short film: music, immigration and cultural background of the immigrants.
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