Det Frie Felts Festival

See You
Wilma Version (DK)

Award winning documentary film by Helle Fugsang on the life in a refugee camp on Lesbos.

SEE YOU is a testimony to our times and what we and the world are losing in terms of human potential, because the possibility to live a dignified life does not apply to everyone. With support from the Danish Arts Foundation, documentarist Helle Fuglsang spent a month in the RIC refugee camp on Lesbos (formerly Moria camp) in December 2022, where, in addition to daily chores, which included delivering food, she focused on the residents' humanity, potential and creativity. 

The mission for her stay in the camp was that the people she met, children and adults, should have an experience of being seen and that they experienced firsthand how performative and artistic methods can create change in their self-perception and experience of everyday life. 

To capture wordless scenes that showed the overlooked creative potential of the residents and that the children experienced through mime art how to express themselves and break down invisible walls. With a desire to meet the camp's residents with creativity and to make them visible as the people they are and not just to be seen as refugees who, as consequence of politics, greed and power, live in miserable and undignified conditions, without the right to decide for themselves over their own lives and futures. 

By using film as a form of communication, the reality and untold story is brought out on the other side of the fence of the refugee camp and gives the audience the opportunity to get to know these people, gain insight into their life situations and experience them in a different way.

ABOUT WILMA VERSION
Wilma Version is a theater association that forms the framework around most of Helle Fuglsang's productions. Helle Fuglsang is the association's artistic and administrative director, and creates films, stage performances and performative works.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CURATORIAL BACKGROUND FROM THE CURATORIAL TEAM OF SELECTED WORKS FESTIVAL 2025:
"The work’s display of how mime can activate and engage participants, whether as performers or as the audience, under challenging conditions."

ARTIST TALK AFTER THE PERFORMANCE
Wilma Version in conversation with Laura Luise Schultz - January 18th, 2025 at 4:15 PM at AFUK, the Cinema
Laura Luise Schultz, Associate Professor, Dept. of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Research areas: contemporary and avant-garde performance, archives and performance, text and performance.