Covid Chronicles: Lonely Streets, A Short Reflection

Agnes Czajka argues that by drawing a poignant connection between Covid-19 and the devastation wrought by the Anthropocene, the film Lonely Streets implores us to awaken from dangerous delusions. Created by Syrian refugees living in Malaysia, the beautiful film of lonely streets under lockdown is framed around Mwaffaq Al-Hajjar’s poem to ‘Mother Earth’. It brings together reflections on multiple overlapping crises around inequality, migration, health and environment in the empty streets of Kuala Lumpur where the homeless, the excluded and feral cats now reign. ----- This material is part of the Covid Chronicles from the Margins project, funded by The Open University and The Hague. The project aims to highlight the impact of the pandemic on refugees, asylum seekers & undocumented migrants. This item can also be found on our website.

艾格尼丝·恰伊卡（Agnes Czajka）指出，影片《孤寂街巷》（Lonely Streets）将新冠疫情与人类世（Anthropocene）所造成的破坏进行了深刻勾连，以此呼吁我们从危险的虚妄之中觉醒。该片由旅居马来西亚的叙利亚难民主创，这部以封锁时期孤寂街巷为主题的精美影片，以姆瓦法克·哈贾尔（Mwaffaq Al-Hajjar）献给"地球母亲"的诗作作为叙事框架。影片以吉隆坡空无一人的街巷为背景，展现无家可归者、被边缘化群体与流浪猫在此占据领地的场景，汇集了人们对不平等、移民、公共卫生与环境等多重交织危机的反思。
本素材隶属于《边缘新冠纪事》（Covid Chronicles from the Margins）项目，该项目由开放大学（The Open University）与海牙（The Hague）资助，旨在揭示新冠疫情对难民、寻求庇护者以及无证移民造成的影响。本作品亦可在我方官方网站查阅。