Duke Aslani

“Local Migrant” (2020)

This video reflects my growing-up experience as a first generation Swiss-Kosovar in environments where I often experienced xenophobia and being unwanted within a system that has treated me like a second-class citizen and forbade me the right to be equally educated like my ‘local’ fellows. The video is shot in VHS, a medium that has followed me throughout my childhood. It starts with the narrative of an imaginary land which has been linked and labelled to me since birth, continued with a reflection on my experience in different environments, objects, places and moments that play a big part in my personal memory.