10.02.07

This thought-provoking exhibition 'Belonging' at the Museum of london challenges assumptions about refugees and explores the contributions they make to London.

Visitors can find out what it means to be a refugee - to be forced to leave your country and to build a new life in exile. They can hear powerful personal stories from pieces of video, interactive displays as well as objects and artworks, all suggesting forms of adaptation and achievement. You may want to test yourself online with the citizenship test which should return some interesting results.

In conjunction with our friends at 'Milo Creative', the museum contracted us to make a number of thought provoking films using archive images, audio testimony and typographic quotations; all based around the themes of families, communities, world and London.

For the main foyer as visitors enter the Museum we produced a short introductory piece which looked like a departure board. The names of the countries where the largest contingent of refugees originated became subtly replaced with nouns suggesting the reason for this flight, such as, persecution, war, poverty etc. This film was projected onto a large white wall and looked very dramatic indeed.

From here we created a further 6 films by using a subtle blend of typographic animations and digital rostrum work. The Museum also asked so us to edit all the films into one larger 20 minute film.