bader video

i LOVED this video! i thought it was profound and smart and beautiful. i'm suprised that this actually functions in 4 separate parts because the first three portions are so lovely together. the last part felt so different that it seems very right that it's separate.

i loved the way that this video goes between footage of the artist in the gallery to footage she took in palastine to footage of her mother and then to the dance. so much about this video was about levels of remove. like the artist from her home in scottland and how she became a refugee of sorts when her parents wanted to move back to the middle east and how that separates her. there's the movement of her parents from their homes to become refugees in scottland. there's the distance created by her inability to speak arabic and the communication barrier that that creates with other members of her family.

and all of this gets played with in the structure of the video. i just kept thinking about the movement between where we see her sitting in the gallery (and how that cube has its own level of remove) to seeing the person she's interviewing but not her...everybody is separtated by the physicallity of the way the thing is shot and the way that the video is constructed. their stories are so interconnected with similar experience but the cultural differences within this family are caused by circumstances they couldn't control....if she wanted us to get how walls and travel and language and time separates people, she definitely captured it.

i really feel like i could ramble on and on about why i thought the structure was so amazing....but i'll just end by saying that i'd really like to watch it again