"Travel the world without leaving your couch." It is under this promise of universal transparency that Google Maps’ Street View feature smoothens our relationship with space. Yet, this alleged total accessibility masks very real borders. Why do certain regions of the world, like Algeria, seem to have been forgotten by the famous 360° camera car ?

Kesra Dafia explores the structural violence of these sterilized digital environments and the mechanisms of Western domination deployed within them. By subverting the visual codes of this digital tourism, this experimental documentary injects an intimate narrative where the algorithm leaves only absence or anonymity. It draws us into a digital wandering through Annaba, where a Harrag lives his final hours in Algeria, on the eve of his clandestine departure for Europe.

This short film takes shape within an installation that reappropriates the aesthetics of advertisements and storefronts omnipresent across the Algerian urban landscape. These images, visual stigmas of French soft power and colonial vestiges, confront two Western-centric worldviews, of which the Mediterranean is the mirror.