Six screens broadcasting in parallel, from different angles, a single event: the operation to rescue the migrants trapped on a sinking boat. Not so much a thirst for hyper-visibility as an attempt to confront us with the real duration of the situation, to render it to the viewer as stranger, more absurd, more unbearable. By bringing these six perspectives together, filmmaker Jonathan Schörnig turns the weapons that are the surveillance cameras against themselves: the camera's gaze, distant and procedural, becomes the unfalsifiable testimony of an imbalanced clash between the heroism of a few activist organizations and the anti-humanitarian measures taken by state bodies. The recordings here allow us to go beyond experiencing everything "as if we were there": they describe a veritable field of pure action, which has freed itself from any mediation and is reduced to raw facts. Not interested in individual destinies, the film sees in the fate of the collective of 104 souls a kind of bitter summary of the hypocrisy that is subjugating Europe today, culminating in these stranger than fiction images where a ship belonging to the Coast Guards ends up behaving just as if it were the enemy. (Victor Morozov)