[anan], (2024)

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

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.

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

[anan] is part of

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