The video is a travel diary to Palestine/Israel featuring Ashery crossing Qalandia check-point and meeting with the architect Sameh Abboushi in Ramallah, with whom she exchanged emails over a number of months discussing the issues of home, family, art and the effects of the occupation. She also visits the Old city with her father in search of the location of his grandfather‘s old shoe shop in the Muslim quarter, and visits Pqaain; the only indigenous village inhabited by Druze, Muslims, Christians and Jews. The travel diary seeks to document a process of placing Oreet‘s family history as indigenous Jews in Palestine within the wider context of the Middle East.
Part of ACE and BFI black world Necessary Journey project.
The CDA's archives are operating with the support of the Ostrovsky Family Fund and Artis
