LONG COVID

[ONGOING]
VIDEO INSTALLATION
DOCUMENTARY

 


Long Covid (working title) is an ongoing documentary project that deals with the ethical and political dimensions regarding the refusal of Covid-19 vaccination. It consists of 20 anonymous interviews of citizens, of diverse beliefs, backgrounds and ideologies, who refused to get the vaccine. The interviews are accompanied by both, first hand documentations and, material from the internet of two ideologically distinct collective mobilizations against the mandatory vaccination.

The term Long Covid refers to the health problems that persisting or developing after an initial COVID-19 infection. In this work I use the term in order to refer to the different beliefs that either predated the health crisis and helped shape the anti-vaccinationist arguments, or were developed during that period and may survive after the pandemic is over.

The interviewees, while being asked to justify their decision, develop a series of arguments regarding the political and moral dimensions of vaccination while at the same time criticizing the wider socio-political reality.

Long Covid reflects on the period of the pandemic, the identities and polarizations that were created. In this way, it renegotiates the ideas that were recycled during that period and wonders about the imprint that the years of the pandemic have left on today.