Paper short abstract:

In movie/visual essay "The Mass" we followed up people on the move and social life and trajectory of life vests on so called Balkan migratory route. Through this parable of phenomenon of "migration crisis" we tried to exposed how are things included and interrelated with human bodies.

Paper long abstract:

The movie Mass is a distillation of human evolution, a parable about the treatment of substance, an image of the control over bodies that are hanged on the world's tissue, or else disgorged from the ocean mass onto dry land, which is interwoven with bodies and the movement of hunters, gatherers, and vagabonds. Our observation of the various forms of abstracted masses, which we become part of at the same time, creates a platform of eternal presence - an active void if you will, which revolves in a closed circle, as though it had neither beginning nor end. What is left is just the stark presence of the traces of bared lives.