BID shines a light on life under surveillance

Helmed by independent, London-based director Lorenzo Sorbini, these impactful and intimate films, created in collaboration with charities Bail Immigration Detainees and Privacy International, examine the UK’s controversial methods of tracking migrants. 

The films, titled He Looked At My Tag And Wrote Me Off, and But This Is My Home, expose the emotional and social impacts of the Home Office's 24/7 GPS surveillance on non-British citizens on immigration bail, including asylum seekers and many born or raised in the UK.

Based on the real, lived experiences of two migrants forced to wear a tag, the affecting and intimate films go into heartbreaking detail of the isolation, shame, and restrictions that wearing a tag imposes on daily life.