Directed and Produced by Ishai Shapira Kalter | Israel 2014 | Duration: 14:25 min | Architect: Kirill Cherikover | Editor: Elad Haiman Hevel Shalom Resort” is an architectural presentation for a luxury hotel to be build underground in the Gaza Envelope. This part is one out of three works - a 2d video animation. During “Operation Protectove Edge”, I have examined the daily routines of the Gaza Envelope citizens. While the emergency moments of those citizens became a way of life and therefore their lives turned into hell, there was an urging need for an asylum city. “Hevel Shalom Resort” is an underground hotel that was designed as a pilot project for Kibbutz Holit in the Gaza Envelope. This inimitable and communal structure would operate in eras of truce and in times of war. With no political solution that can bee seen in the horizon, “Hevel Shalom Resort” provides a fiction alternative to the most important Zionist necessity - to protect the lives of Gaza’s Envelope citizens. This oasis suggests a humane solution to the emeregency reality that happen in Israeli of the 21st Century. *The installation was exhibited at Hahanut Gallery as part of the Duo-exhibition “A Moment of Truce” with Roni Weiss.
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