NEWS FROM HOME / NEWS FROM HOUSE

Twenty-five years ago I began a film, House, by observing the (re)construction of a house in West Jerusalem as a metaphor for the city and its inhabitants - mostly Jews and Arabs, Palestinians and Israelis. In this first film, the house was a sort of open archeological site - a human archeological site. In the second film, A House in Jerusalem, which I began in 1995, the focus was extended, shifted right and left, up and down towards the house's neighbors and the archeological sites buried below the earth's surface. In News from Home / News from House I wanted to widen the perimeters of my observation to Diasporas, to those links to the original inhabitants of the house by their family history. (Amos Gitai)