THE DOCUMENTARY

Born of university students motivated to learn about the reality of Palestinian refugee camps, through art Sights Without Rights brings out the gazes of the community that participated in photography, video shooting and writing workshops that eight student volunteersǝ proposed over two months of stay in the Burj al-Shemali camp in the city of Tire (Southern Lebanon). The project offers visitors glimpses of the camp, interviews with the people who live there, writings by those who have found the will to tell themselves to share their story, sometimes made up of painful memories; shots and videos of boys and girls and volunteers themselves. The virtual reality Documentary, which contains the material produced, tries to connect the person who experiences it with this reality that cannot be concretely imagined without having lived it from the inside or without having listened to and observed the gazes of those who reality, he experiences it every day.  

Sights Without Rights was born with the idea of understanding and then documenting and denouncing, leaving it to tell who lives that specific reality first and foremost. In equal measure, the work and sharing of the camp community are to be paid and paid back.  

The target  of this project is to sensitize the Italian and foreign population about the conditions and the reality of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The choice of the virtual experience derives from the awareness that making it accessible to anyone with a simple computer can make it reach a much wider audience. The virtual reality documentary will also allow us to propose online workshops to Italian and foreign middle schools, high schools and universities, articulated on the vision of the same and on the subsequent comparison and analysis. Furthermore, it will be possible to easily create an interaction between Italian and Palestinian students who participated in the workshops.