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Fortress Europe - Promotional Video belongs to a body of work that investigates the private industry that hides behind, and benefits from, the external borders of the European Union. This video has been put together exclusively with found footage from private companies promotional videos which, on the one hand, are funded by Frontex to develop products related to the border securitization and, on the other, are some of the largest arms manufacturers and exporters of Europe. Ultimately, Fortress Europe - Promotional Video is a visual poem that reveals the ideologies behind these businesses while reflecting upon issues such as current technologies of securitization, the production of space, and its consequences.

Made during the heyday of film theory’s infatuation with the textual aspects of the medium and of complex semiotic approaches to the language of cinema, this film is a text in which each shot is a single word, tightly-framed white letters against a black background. Snow manages to defamiliarize both film and language and enters the contemporary debate about film being a language or not.