PARALLEL ENTROPY 

Shot across France and Croatia, the ongoing series of short films allows glimpses into strangers’ realities. The project focuses on seemingly-disparate internal realities intersecting unexpectedly. It is an embodiment of moments in which people from different backgrounds and places find common ground in their lived experiences. The project evolved from me walking around Strasbourg, having informal interviews with people I met. Many of these interviews were conducted in a small community with many first and second generation migrants. Because I too was foreign to the setting, the baseline was always a mutual understanding of being from an “elsewhere”, and a shared “otherness”. This positionality allowed me to explore dispossession and belonging, cultural and linguistic differences, as well as forms of discrimination that people had faced as a result of their “otherness”.