Knowledge and power relations: In a migration storytelling, Derviş Zaim's Film Flashdrive

Abstract

Starting from Gilles Deleuze's (1989, p.59) concepts of "worldization" or/and "world-image" we should consider the intersection of cinema, architecture and storytelling as an act of thinking about "world-building". Because only such action takes us through creative and political stories that will enable us to understand why the cities of the future are migrant camps. Flashdrive doesn't just give us a refugee camp story; also maps the spatio-temporal distinctions of the survival journey. It presents a migration story shaped by media dispositifs and spatial dispositifs in which power and knowledge are articulated.

Keywords

• architecture
• film
• camp
• cinema
• city
• civil war
• dispositif
• flashdrive
• knowledge-power
• media
• refugee
• storytelling
• scheherazade
• world building