TERRITORY I,II,III
Black and White 16mm film with sound
Duration 23.50 minutes
2005

TERRITORY I (WHITE LIES) is named after a text by Sharon Rotbard, an architect and writer living in Tel Aviv. This film looks at the way Tel Aviv wants to see itself; a modernist heritage city in the Bauhaus style, the so-called "White city". In 2003, UNESCO's acceptance of this image reveals the way an urban myth can enter a collective belief system and how a city changes with the rewriting of its historiography.

TERRITORY II (THE KISSING POINT)'s text is in collaboration with Eyal Weizman, an architect living in London. The film observes the complexity of the geography of the conflict, reflected through the settler's and Palestinian town's architectures.
It reveals how the landscape is constructed to embrace political ends. How a logic of appropriation manifests itself when traditional Arab architecture inspires settler's buildings and Palestinian towns in turn mimic modernist architecture.

TERRITORY III (ALKDEREH HOUSE, RAMALLAH) was filmed during a walk through the Alkdereh district of Ramallah in Palestine. This house built in 1865 is one of the oldest in town. It was a community centre for many years before it closed two years ago. The flat roof, high ceilings, thick walls, and horseshoe-arched windows are the main characteristics of traditional Arab style.