Gneezah

Yael Bartana | Netherlands | 2002 | 10' |

| IFFR 2002

Intriguing spectacle in an old city at night. In the dark, Orthodox Jewish men load huge nets of papers in a truck. A title card indicates that no fragment may be lost of holy papers. The rubbish goes to a holy storage place. A paper cemetery.

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