KHAYAM AL HURBANO (EXISTANT SUR SES RUINES)

EXISTING ON ITS RUINS

of ALON Bosmat, EVEN Tirtza

ISRAEL, 2000, 00:35:00

Production : EVEN Tirtza
Genre : Video art, Documentary, Creative documentary
Keyword : Colonalism, Human rights, Memory, Testimony, Territories

Summary :
The material for this work was shot in Deheishe, a refugee camp near Bethlehem, and in the Hebron surroundings, over a period of several months in the summer and fall of 98. During this period, we visited and interviewed people whose homes had been demolished or threatened to be demolished by the Israeli government, as is the case for many of the refugee camp dwellers. Fragments of their stories and comments are interwoven with the images we shot, and with a short dream-like text, written by Bosmat ALON, which reflects the complexity of our own stance as witnesses - either invasive, detached, foreign or guilty. The video is however mostly pervaded by the heavy silence of a continuous waiting, fixed moment, or room to non-maneuver.

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