6 min
Alexander Gaisie-Walker and James Altham
Animation
2013 - Germany
North American Premiere

This short animation is a haunting portrayal of the machine of Israeli occuption and the exploitation of Palestinian land. While it focuses on quarrying in Palestine, it is also a metaphor for Israeli colonization practices as a whole. After a father and son are pushed off of their land by armed soldiers, their property destroyed and their land quarried, the machine of occupation is met with resistance and a hopeful vision for Palestine.
The film is a School of Architecture Student Project at Oxford Brookes University and is accompanied by an original, striking soundtrack by Philip Glass, one of the most influential composers living today. In partnership with the Palestinian architectural preservation group Riwaq, the directors are involved in series of regeneration projects in the West Bank village of Beit Iksa.

Screened with We want to know & Behind Me Olive Tree