[anan], (2024)

[anan] 2024, video and 16mm transferred to video, 9’52’’, color, stereo, Yiddish with English subtitles

Sound creation and mix Laszlo Umbreit
Color grading Miléna Trivier
Yiddish translator Sonia Dratwa-Pinkusowitz
Produced by Messidor
Supported by Vlaamse Gemeenschap Kunstendecreet

Echoing the title of its precursor film Un Âne – “a donkey” in French – [anan]’s title refers to the phonetic sound of the word “cloud” in Hebrew.
The film moves through route 3199 in Al Naqab desert in southern Israel / colonized Palestine. This route was followed and filmed by renowned filmmaker Chantal Akerman around her untimely death in 2015.
The film is a work of mourning, invested in an attempt to mourn Akerman in time of ravaging genocide, while inter-generational trauma is created.
The film is a reckoning with the blind spot of European Jewry towards the settler colonization of Palestine by Zionism and the ongoing Nakba.

 

[anan] is part of Là

Supported by Kunstendecreet, S.M.A.K and Messidor