Forensic Oceanography is a collaborative project between Lorenzo Pezzani and Charles Heller[1][2] in which they "critically investigate the militarised border regime imposed by Europe across the Mediterranean Sea".
charting the fate of a migrant boat adrift between Tripoli and Lampedusa for 14 days.
These are the positions of all the many planes, helicopters, Nato vessels and fishermen’s boats that flicker around the migrants but never draw close.
A thousand documents could not say as much as this brief and sorrowfully beautiful film in which all the lights fade, leaving only the one little spark which eventually dies away, emblem of what is now known as the Left-to-Die Boat.
[8]Blaming the Rescuers (2017) "dismantled allegations made by agencies such as Frontex and leading European politicians, who claimed charities were encouraging smugglers to use more dangerous tactics on the treacherous passage between Libya and Italy"; and "the idea that rescues by NGOs are to blame for an increase in migrants crossing.