This Day (Al Yaoum), 2003
This Day (Al Yaoum), 2003
Shot in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, this essay uses transportation, video, and photography to examine images circulating in a historically charged, and presently war-torn and divided, Middle East. From images of camels in the desert to images of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the video looks at states of mind in relation to actual geographies. The video pays tribute to an unformatted and open-ended documentary approach, and examines modes of access to information such as travel, television and the Internet, while carefully displaying the resulting iconography.
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This Day (Al Yaoum), 2003, Video, 4:3, B&W and Color, English, 01:26:00, Excerpt