Welcome to the Jungle: a catastrophic clusterfuck at the Channel Tunnel

by Daniel Bertina
11 November 201530 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Maaike Engels (videokunstenaar en filmmaker) en Teun Voeten (oorlogsfotograaf en cultureel antropoloog) maakten Welcome to the Jungle. Een documentaire over de totale chaos in het geïmproviseerde migrantenkamp bij de kanaaltunnel in Calais, waar nu een slordige 6000 mensen in barre ellende wachten op hun kans om clandestien naar Engeland te reizen.
Welcome to the Jungle is een pijnlijke en bij vlagen hilarisch zwartgallige film, die duidelijk maakt wat voor een catastrofale clusterfuck [hints] M...

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Daniel Bertina

/// Freelance cultural journalist, critic, writer and dramatist. Omnivore with a love of art, culture & media in all unfathomable gradations between obscure underground and wildly commercial mainstream. Also works for Het Parool and VPRO. And trains Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.View Author posts

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