No Colour or Creed

The other day I was inspired to visit the The Tate Modern. I wandered around with no particular objective, just seeing where the Spirit moves me. I found myself in this room where they were showing a short silent film by Ori Gersht, which simply blew me away.

"Neither Black Nor White examines the contested borderline between Israeli and Palestinian territory. Filming from the top of a hill in the Jewish quarter of Nazareth, the camera looks down into the Arab village of Iksal. The camera recorded half a second of footage every thirty seconds, reducing a shooting period of eight hours to eight minutes of film. Shot overnight, the urban scene is unrecognisable. As dawn breaks, the city gradually emerges before disappearing again as the image is bleached out by the intensity of the rising sun." Neither Black nor White

I love how you can't tell whether the lights flickering away in the darkness are sraeli or Palestinian. I also loved how as the sun rises everything merges into the light.

Brilliant!

Enocia

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