Extract from ME 37

Directed by Ghazel
France
15 mins
2001
Video
Colour

When she received an expulsion notice from the French government in 1997, a victim of the European 'green card', Iranian artist Ghazel decided to post 'marriage-wanted' signs on the walls of Paris to procure a passport by marriage-of-convenience.

Since then, she has worked on issues of illegal immigration, asylum, origin and identity in a series of videos entitled ME. The Extract from ME 37 screening here is a discussion of just how complicated it is to navigate the modern landscape.