Forensic Architecture Movies

  • 2016
    Death by Rescue: The Lethal Effects of Non-Assistance at Sea

    Death by Rescue: The Lethal Effects of Non-Assistance at Sea

    Death by Rescue: The Lethal Effects of Non-Assistance at Sea

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    In April 2015, two shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean resulted in over a thousand deaths. The first, on 12 April, occurred when an overcrowded bo...

    Death by Rescue: The Lethal Effects of Non-Assistance at Sea
  • 2024
    Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza: 2023-2024

    Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza: 2023-2024

    Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza: 2023-2024

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    Since 2014, Palestinian farmers along Gaza’s perimeter have seen their crops sprayed by airborne herbicides and regularly bulldozed, and have themselv...

    Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza: 2023-2024
  • 2022
    Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest

    Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest

    Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest

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    Since Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of Brazil in 2019, vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous communities that live in and ca...

    Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest
  • 2019
    Oil and Gas Pollution in Vaca Muerta

    Oil and Gas Pollution in Vaca Muerta

    Oil and Gas Pollution in Vaca Muerta

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    Vaca Muerta, Argentina, is one of the world's largest shale oil and gas deposits, that deposit is also home to the indigenous Mapuche people. In 2013,...

    Oil and Gas Pollution in Vaca Muerta
  • 2020
    Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea: 28 October 2015

    Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea: 28 October 2015

    Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea: 28 October 2015

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    On 28 October 2015, a migrant boat left the coast of Western Turkey heading to the closest European coast – the Greek island of Lesvos. The shipwreck...

    Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea: 28 October 2015
  • 2024
    The Killing of Hind Rajab

    The Killing of Hind Rajab

    The Killing of Hind Rajab

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    Working closely with journalists from Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines, Forensic Architecture collaborated with Earshot to examine the circumstances surroundi...

    The Killing of Hind Rajab
  • 2019
    Triple-Chaser

    Triple-Chaser

    Triple-Chaser

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    When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were manufactured by the S...

    Triple-Chaser
  • 2023
    The Pylos Shipwreck – Situated Testimony

    The Pylos Shipwreck – Situated Testimony

    The Pylos Shipwreck – Situated Testimony

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    On 14 June 2023, a boat carrying hundreds of migrants sank inside the Greek search and rescue zone in the Mediterranean Sea–the deadliest migrant ship...

    The Pylos Shipwreck – Situated Testimony
  • 2024
    Situated Testimonies of Grenfell

    Situated Testimonies of Grenfell

    Situated Testimonies of Grenfell

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    Eleven individuals affected by the Grenfell Tower Fire—bereaved family members, survivors, and nearby residents—worked with researchers from Forensic...

    Situated Testimonies of Grenfell
  • 2018
    The Seizure of the Iuventa

    The Seizure of the Iuventa

    The Seizure of the Iuventa

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    The Iuventa has rescued over ten thousand people from the Mediterranean since it began operating in 2016. When the vessel was impounded by Italian aut...

    The Seizure of the Iuventa
  • 2014
    Genocide in the Ixil Triangle

    Genocide in the Ixil Triangle

    Genocide in the Ixil Triangle

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    Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala was consumed by conflict between an increasingly militarized state and a widespread rural insurgency. The state's cou...

    Genocide in the Ixil Triangle
  • 2018
    Sea Watch vs the Libyan Coastguard

    Sea Watch vs the Libyan Coastguard

    Sea Watch vs the Libyan Coastguard

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    When the Libyan coastguard interrupted a rescue operation by the NGO Sea Watch, at least twenty migrants lost their lives, and more were "pulled back"...

    Sea Watch vs the Libyan Coastguard
  • 2018
    Torture in Saydnaya Prison

    Torture in Saydnaya Prison

    Torture in Saydnaya Prison

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    Syria’s Saydnaya Prison is also known as “the slaughterhouse.” Stories of systematic torture and executions have been trickling out for years, but the...

    Torture in Saydnaya Prison
  • 2020
    The Killing of Mark Duggan

    The Killing of Mark Duggan

    The Killing of Mark Duggan

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    On 4 August 2011, Mark Duggan was shot to death by police in Tottenham, north London, after undercover officers forced the minicab in which he was tra...

    The Killing of Mark Duggan