Babylon

After the insurrection erupted in Libya in the spring of 2012 more than a million people flocked to neighboring Tunisia in search of a safe haven from the escalating violence When a massive refugee camp was hastily constructed near the Ras Jdir border checkpoint in Tunisia a trio of filmmakers carried their cameras in and began filming with no agenda This onthefly chronicle of the camps installation operation and dismantling captures a postmodern Babel complete with a multinational population of displaced folk a regime of humanitarian aid workers and international media that broadcasts its image to the world Visually stunning and refreshingly undogmatic Babylon reveals a rarely seen aspect of the Arab Spring