A tool of resistance, 2020

The filming of this video in late 2018 was shaped by a recent controversial law that was often talked about in the West Bank. The cabinet members had introduced a bill in parliament that sought to criminalize filming, photographing, or dissemination of footage depicting military activities in the West Bank. It was unclear if this law would be approved.

23 min 35 sec

2-channel video installation

Video HD, color, sound

Interview with: Badee Dwaik

Translation: Iyad Dayoub, Eden Rabi

Proofreading and Subtitles: Kari Leigh Rosenfeld

Color and Sound: Tristan Daniel Nicolas

Language: English, Arabic, Hebrew

Locations: Ramallah, Hebron

This 6 photographs were taken autonomously on the camera during a run while filming "A tool of resistance". A moment that couldn't be documented. A moment that questions all the other undocumented moments. This were moments of fear. Fear that often results in partial footage, in blurred images, in cutting the subject out of the frame.

Series of 6 photographs,

Inkjet print, 148 × 35 mm each