In this virtual-digital, multi-channel, postmodern age, a need arises for the real, concrete and meaningful. A specific "place," ("makom" in Hebrew) chosen from a personal and creative point of view, can become a revealing and enlightening fragment of reality; a filmic-artistic focus, in turn, can imbue a place with new meaning while recreating it as an experience of discovery.
Twenty Israeli artists, filmmakers and authors commissioned by producer and director Amit Goren, each created a five minute digital video about a place – a site or location, a zone of occurrence, one containing an event or a dramatic situation, a personal story or a memory – a place with a unique meaning for each director. The result is an inventive and varied collection of stories about places that, in their accumulation, tell a story about the human condition in Israel at the beginning of the third millennium.
The Makom Project has been compiled in 5 parts of approximately 28 minutes each - 4 films in each part, accompanied by short statements by the filmmakers. Artists include Tamar Getter, Yitzhak Gormezano Goren, Zohar Behrendt, Aner Preminger, Maria Pomiansky, Joshua Saimon, Ariella Azoulay, Miki Kratsman, Inbar Tavor, Meir Wigoder, Keren Ben-Rafael, Uri Tzaig, Amit Goren, Aim Deuelle Luski, Chen Sheinberg, Suha Arraf, Pavel Wohlberg, Doron Solomons, Nurith Aviv, Macabit Avramson, Avner Feingulernt.
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