Tradescantia Pallida, commonly known as the “Wandering Jew,” is a species of a spiderwort plant that adorns domestic interiors and ornamental gardens. Shot in Vilnius, Lithuania, "Habitat" uses the cultural meanings of the plant to examine the Jewish character and its place in the world by visually isolating it and resituating it in new environments. The plant comes to life in this video and turns from an object of scientific examination into an unidentifiable or an unpredictable object. The music is adopted from the 1937 film "Dybbuk"(a malevolent spirit possession in Jewish mythology) and indicates the way in which the relation of persecuted persecutor replicates itself within all.
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