This summer in Israel, I was drawn to film 30-second to 1-minute landscapes from all over
the country. I've strung them together as a form of diary of my
experience living there during a time of war. Interestingly, just after I filmed
a landscape in the Galilee from the back seat of a moving vehicle, I saw a Chantal Akerman exhibit at the Mamuta Visual Arts Center in Jerusalem, where she portrays an Israeli desert landscape in a similar way. Much of my time there was spent flipping to different Israeli online news sites for up-to-the-minute briefings on the situation. This inspired me to scroll "news updates" at
the bottom of the landscapes reflecting my personal thoughts and experiences. Here are a few film stills.
