Sanzaru of Power (2025)
dir. WeSmellGas Collective
By combining an interactive 3D map and web documentary episodes on topics including militarisation, sacrificed zones, and colonial debt, anti-colonial research collective WeSmellGas explores the violence of – and resistance to –the fossil gas industry in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Conducted alongside written research article published on Antipode Journal of Radical Geography: A Gas-Industrial Complex: Tracing the Colonial Cartography of the Eastern Mediterranean
Conducted alongside written research article published on Antipode Journal of Radical Geography: A Gas-Industrial Complex: Tracing the Colonial Cartography of the Eastern Mediterranean
Category: Interactive Web-Documentary
Stage: Post-production
Producers: Anekdote
Director: WeSmellGas Collective
Length: 25min
Languages: English, Italian, Greek, Arabic
Shooting Locations: Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon
Stage: Post-production
Producers: Anekdote
Director: WeSmellGas Collective
Length: 25min
Languages: English, Italian, Greek, Arabic
Shooting Locations: Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon
Selected Stills
A military surveillance tower monitors the marshes separating Greece and Turkey near Alexandroupoli. The national park has become increasingly militarised as both countries escalate tensions and weaponise migrant flows along the border.
The Elpedison Thessaloniki Power Plant operating at night. The plant primarily runs on fossil gas and is located near a planned LNG terminal.
An electricity plant in Northern Cyprus emitting toxic fumes fatal for local communities. 
Riot police gear up against an anti-fascist march protesting the political murders of activists in Thessaloniki, Greece
Samu, a Sardinian activist and cooperative farmer, waits for the rain to pass in an abandoned military training ground. The tower he stands in bears a large graffiti tag from the anti-militarisation group AFORAS.
The Convocatoria Ecologista Taranto gathers in 2023 for collective strategising and healing in Apulia, Italy. Local communities and activists continue working to hold Ex-ILVA, Europe’s largest steel plant, accountable for the countless harms it has caused over the decades.