Watch A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints) (2016) Online

We were huddled in front of the thin light of a fire in an abandoned house on a cold January night in Calais. X was making another cup of very sugary tea. Y, stirring the kindling, yelled as he accidentally grabbed a burning twig. “are you trying to clean your fingerprints?” laughed X. ‘A Rough History’ is a performance lecture, installation and 16mm film following several visits to Calais, that considers a practice by migrants entering the EU of destroying their fingerprints to avoid detection by the Eurodac system, alongside other histories of fingerprinting and fingerprint erasures. It sees the fingerprint as a scaled down landscape, looking at the circulation of the image of the fingerprint, and the different lives and journeys of the migrants whose hands produce such images. Read More

Watch A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints) online. Featuring , A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints) is classified as genre movie with an average rating across the web of 6. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in France and was released on 2016. A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints) was directed by Ayesha Hameed. Read Less