Dancing With Wolves
2001 | video | 01'00
Dancing With Wolves was made in 2001, shortly after the breaking of the second Inthifada. This temporal context is important, because the Palestinian uprising was a generator for major changes inside the Israeli society, mostly to the worse. The general atmosphere in these days was that all other preoccupation but politics and security are luxury, a common attitude, which had extensively increased at that time.
In Dancing With Wolves we casually locate ourselves at the heart of the dissension- the geo-political and the internal.
The physical location is a high bridge between east and west Jerusalem (the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), the soundtrack is a mix of sounds recorded from our apartment window in Jerusalem. These are the conditions we have to deal with – we choose to bend them to our own needs; let the sirens be our music, let the bridge-bar be our stage. On this background we perform our act, a careless, bold dance between heaven and earth, between the real and the imaginative.
Dancing With Wolves is a defiance against reality, against gravity, against shorted-sight society. We dance like MTV hunks, like manga warrior, if you like. Our movements are just signs. Only manipulation can make us survive.