Crossing Surda by Emily Jacir documents her daily walk across the Surda checkpoint to Birzeit University, exposing military restrictions, violence, and the disrupted lifeline between Ramallah and surrounding villages.

Created for dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, the Alter Bahnhof Video Walk by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller guides viewers through a train station via iPod, blending filmed past and present into an uncanny “physical cinema” about memory and presence.

Filmed near sacred Kyoung Ju, Sewing into walking shows Kimsooja wandering and sewing fabrics into a quiet ritual. Walking becomes stitching, exploring memory, migration, and the body as a living bundle.

Songdelay is a black-and-white film performance on the New York waterfront, structured through walking and props. Delays between action and sound, shaped by distance and lenses, reveal space, rhythm, and collective movement.

An expanded cinema piece exploring walking, filmed from three perspectives: 2 cameras on the body and 1 external. It challenges perceptions of space, body, and objectivity, questioning how different viewpoints influence our understanding of reality.

Ashes is built through drifting rather than narrative. Apichatpong lets images wander—daily routines, village walks, fleeting gestures—colliding with political protests in Thailand, creating a film shaped by memory, observation, and quiet resistance.

Komatsu, using a compass, follows the sun’s path across the city from east to west, overcoming obstacles like trees, walls, and streets. The video pauses whenever the route becomes impassable, highlighting the limits of the journey.

Kimsooja's A Needle Woman (1999) contrasts her stillness against the fast-moving crowds in public spaces, symbolizing the migrant woman's silent endurance. The performance explores themes of displacement, labor, and the emotional toll of migration.