Better Life

29 August, 2021 - 19:30
CINEMATEK, BRUSSELS

Better Life

Isaac Julien
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UK
,
2010
,
HD
,
colour
,
55'

A single-channel version of the multi-screen installation Ten Thousand Waves, in which Julien transforms the 2004 tragedy of Morecambe Bay—where 23 Chinese migrant workers drowned whilst in search of a “better life”—into a poetic meditation on global migration across continents and throughout the ages.