Strip / Musrara
Panoramic, 3 channel video installation, 76 minutes
Strip: Musrara is part of an ongoing series exploring multi-perspective, panoramic video as a hybrid between map and documentary. Set in Jerusalem’s Musrara neighborhood—a dense, layered place at the seam between east and west—the project creates a living map that is both collective and subjective, focusing not on exact measurements, but rather the fragmented experience of moving through the neighborhood: together and alone, locals and strangers, intersecting and drifting apart.
Musrara itself is a place shaped by layered histories: narrow alleys, stairways, and tenements stand alongside abandoned Palestinian mansions from before 1948. Since the 1950s, the neighborhood has been home to Moroccan Jewish families, young students, and ultra-Orthodox communities, and was once a center of the Israeli Black Panther movement for Mizrahi equality.
In the piece, groups of three to nine local “surveyors” walk in single file, scanning the landscape with sideways-facing video cameras. Their video fragments, when aligned, form an immersive, constantly shifting panoramic installation. Sometimes they break formation, wandering into homes and back alleys, their perspectives briefly diverging. The piece drifts between conversations and pure movement, circling the impossibility of fully capturing such a complex place, while revealing the political, social, and intimate layers embedded in its structure.
Credits: Strip / Musrara was produced with a great team of volunteers and the support of Musrara School and GoPro Israel. See here for the full credits.
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