• DOGMA 4.8 - Performative Archive

    The brainchild of Einat Weitzman, Dogme 4.8 is a docu-art project built around archival records located by Akevot Institute. Eight artists contributed work to this project. Each piece interacts with a document using artistic tools for eight minutes and forty seconds.

     

    • Words like sand | Olga Goltser

      A letter sent to the editor of Al HaMishmar newspaper presents an account by a soldier who arrived in the village of Dawayima after it was captured in Operation Yoav in October 1948. The account contains details of acts of violence and abuse that… Read more

    • Hunger Strike | Meira Asher

      In July 1980, 74 Palestinian prisoners in Nafha prison went on a hunger strike to protest prison conditions. In response, some were force fed. Two died as a result. Numerous international organizations and private parties reported on the incidents in protest. By: Meira… Read more

    • We bring you reality | Adam Uriel Ruf

      Maps printed in Israel do not display the “Green Line” separating the country’s sovereign territory and the territories it seized in 1967. The Green Line did not disappear from the maps by accident. It was the result of a… Read more

    • Action No. 12 | Meir Tati

      A number of testimonies by residents of the village of Jish arrested on suspicion of smuggling or purchasing from smugglers offer a rather rare direct glimpse into the regime of terror inflicted by the Military Rule and the violence used against its subjects. By: Meir Tati. With:… Read more

    • Premises | Michal Semama

      In July 1965, senior members of the Shin Bet, the Israel Police, the Mossad and others were called in for a special meeting to draft guidelines for the government’s policy towards the Arab minority in Israel. Ahead of the meeting,… Read more

    • Quarrel | Fidaa Zidan

      A report by the Israel Police Acre District Headquarters describes, in great detail, a quarrel between two families in the Druze village of Beit Jann and the findings of the police investigation into the matter. The document exposes the extent of involvement… Read more

    • Qadita, my love | Ala Hlehel

      Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced during and after the 1948 war. Some were uprooted two or three times. This was the predicament of two residents of Qadita, a village near Safed. At the beginning of the war, the two were forced to move to Jish… Read more

    • Son of Lod | Tamer Nafar

      For years, Palestinian authors and poets were required to submit their work for the Military Censor’s review prior to publication. One of them was Druze poet Samih al-Qasem, who, in the 1970s, was under a series of personal restrictions pursuant to the Emergency Regulations. By:… Read more