Beyond the self
Video Installation, 2010
Loop
two screens
duration Loop
Aura
2010
stranger «strange indeed is the encounter with the other- whom we perceive by means of sight, hearing, smell, but do not» frame» within our consciousness. The other leaves us separate incoherent; even more so, he can make us feel what we are not in touch with our own feeling, that we reject them or, on the contrary, that we refuse to judge them- we feel «stupid,» we have «been had.”
from Strangers To Ourselves by Julia Kristeva
duration 4.07 minutes
The Other Is Me
2010
The foreigner lives within us: he is the hidden face of our identity, the space that wrecks our abode, the time in which understanding and affinity founder. The ‘foreigner’ then is something hidden in ourselves, something with the potential to destroy ‘home’ and something that is beyond ‘understanding’ or relations with each other
duration 5,34 minutes
Heavenly
2010
As a child, I used to come to this place with my father, which we called the Souk or market. It was always full of people, in spite of the Israeli soldiers hovering on the roofs above us. I used to watch them while holding onto my father, but they did not scare me because I felt protected by him. I have now gone back as an adult. The number of soldiers has increased; there are cameras everywhere; and the Israeli settlers have completely taken control of the rooftops. So that when I looked up, I am terrified and feel vulnerable. The place is now two conflicting spaces - the Souk and the rooftops - which are separated by netting that the settlers use as a rubbish dump, hanging over the heads of the Palestinian passers-by. And the Souk itself has been emptied of the clamor of the salesmen and of its shoppers. Now, there are only children and cats running around, and old people staring in despair at the shops that no longer carry goods.
I am filled with fear and the sight pains me. So I secretly point my camera at this visual ruin that the occupier has attempted to impose here, in a place imbued with a bygone history.
duration 4.47 minutes
Cnflect
2009
This work attempts to Measure the distance and try to find if there are different grasps into the self.
duration 3.17 minute
No Time No Place
2009
This Film studies the relationship between the “human” with time, place and the mental confusion resulted by the rapid evolution of human life. Recently and particularly in contemporary cites the human serves the economic machine instead of it serving him. With this acceleration and daily routine, sometimes I feel that I’m losing the connection and the sense with both place and time. Life repeats it self each day and what happened yesterday is happening today and will happen tomorrow.
This case has created a technical/mechanical relationship between human with place and time. This relation lacks the sense of humanity and the existence of time and place. Subsequently, the human psychology has been affected where people started even to shape the space, ghosts, phantoms, shadows and gel forms which do not have forms and dimensions in order to recognize them.
This work attempts to study and grasp into the self to explore to what extent it has reached, and dives into the
duration 3.7 minute
The Gray Horizon
2009
duration 1,37 Minutes