Refugee Republic

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Publication language
English
Date published
01 Nov 2014
Type
Audio-visual material
Keywords
Forced displacement and migration, Urban
Countries
Iraq, Syria
Link
http://refugeerepublic.submarinechannel.com/intro_en.php?o=o

Refugee Republic is an interactive transmedia documentary about everyday life in Domiz Camp, a Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq.

The aim of the makers, artist Jan Rothuizen, multimedia journalist Martijn van Tol and photographer Dirk Jan Visser, is to enrich the existing image of refugee camps by building an anatomical sketch of everyday life in the camp, through a combination of drawings, film, photography, sound and text to create a sensory experience.

The interactive documentary, produced by Submarine Channel and De Volkskrant, premieres at the Amsterdam documentary festival IDFA on 20 November 2014. The Dutch version will be released online on 28 November 2014 on De Volkskrant website together with a six page special in De Volkskrant newspaper. Simultaneously, OneWorld magazine will publish the documentary online as well as in a six page print publication in its monthly magazine. An exhibition is planned for 2015.