
Border Speaking : a touring project from the Adriatic to the Baltic Seas
From July 20th until October 20th 2009, we accompanied the film "La frontière intérieure - The Barriers Within" and set off to meet the people living on the border. We rejoined both ends of our route Świnoujście-San Bartolomeo (this time from South to North) with a DVD player and the film subtitled in 7 languages. We followed the frontier which separated the „older from the „newer“ countries of the EU until the end of the controls in December 2007. Altogether, 40 calls were organized in 40 different „check-points“ on our route from the Adriatic to the Baltics and around 2000 spectators from eight different nationalities took part in this event. Each one of these stops gave rise to bringing together a public from both sides of the frontier in unusual and symbolic places and share views on the theme of the film. The projection places were selected in partnership with around 60 local organizations (groups, schools, town councils, cultural centers, museums, etc) which helped organize the event.
The 40 places: Koper - Capodistria (Adria), Trieste, Kobarid, Gorizia - Nova Gorica, Villach, Bad Eisenkappel, Dravograd, Felsöcsatár, Köszeg, Angern an der March, Mureck, Graz, Slavonice, Raabs, Drosendrof , Veveri, Ludwigsthal, St. Oswald, Schönsee, Klingenthal, Ostritz, Marienberg, Bad Schandau, Dolni Poustevna, Sebnitz, Ebersbach, Görlitz, Zittau, Varnsdorf, Forst (Lausitz) , Stettin, Guben Gubin, Eisenhüttenstadt, Bad Muskau, Kostrzyn, Cedynia école, Cedynia mairie, Slubice, Frankfurt/Oder, Świnoujście (Ostsee)


