Summary: Palestinian families in Jerusalem / Al Quds look out and speak from their homes using a CCTV camera in 2009. The film was made in 2011.
The material for this film was generated by eight Palestinian families living in various neighborhoods in the city of Jerusalam/Al Quds, a place where the usual sense of "neighborhood" is broken by occupation and conflict. It was filmed over a month in September-October 2009, with a PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) CCTV camera that the residents installed on their own homes, (or in the case of evicted families on nearby houses), at a point of vantage. The commentary heard is that of people speaking over the video live as they watched, and controlled the camera from inside their homes. Sometimes the voice looks for an image, at other times image provokes voice, or they separate into distant landscapes and innermost thoughts.
More:
https://www.moderntimes.review/staying-with-the-trouble-the-radical-work-of-camp/https://studio.camp/projects/neighbour1/ The footage was edited into this feature-length film in 2011
Selected screenings:
Jerusalem Lives: Tahya Al Quds, Palestine Museum Opening, Brizeit, 2017
Palestine: Territory, Memory, Projections, MUCEM, Marseille, 2017
As If II - Flight of the Black Boxes 2015, New Delhi
Unravelling Documentarism, Flaherty at Helsinki, 2014
Flaherty Seminar, NY 2014
Tales From the Networked Neighbourhood: The Cinema of Camp: Filmmaker Festival, Milan, 2014
Cork Film Festival, Ireland; 2013
Cinema Project, Portland; 2013
Filament: Experimenter Gallery, 2012
New Museum Triennial, 2012
The Matter Within, Yerba Buena Center for Art, San Francisco, 2011
Sharjah Biennale X, 2011
Liverpool Biennale, 2010
The Jerusalem Show, 2009