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At the time of this writing, in the largest camp on the island, I began considering organizing a small crew to film on Lesvos, I was watching on social media people seeking safety in Europe arriving on the island crammed into boats with their speech untranslated. These images are tightly cropped by their makers so they can be visible on cell-phones. The resulting borders of the frame increase the sense of people without space, like sardines in a can. I chose to film in the extra wide format known as Cinemascope and to listen to and translate what these people had to say because I wanted to give them space--both literally and figuratively. We live in a time of hyper-privatization, extreme inequality and the loss of a public sphere. The cause of these is the world dominance of neoliberal capitalism. A consequence of neoliberalism is what Zygmunt Bauman has called “liquid modernity,” meaning by this the loss of a feeling of being anchored in life and instead an increasing feeling of precariousness in a world defined by the internet, social media and the Uber-i-zation of work. As Marx put it in the communist manifesto,

About my film about refugees on the island of Lesvos