In the movie Wall Prank (2008) Lauren Mareschal silently tracks the developing events in Abu Dis neighborhood in Jerusalem and the construction of the West-bank barrier. There are frenetic sounds of heavy construction in the background. The movie shifts from documentary footage to animation, between landscapes of homes and hills waiting for events to occur around them and the animated landscape of the fictional wall cracking and buckling under its weight. All the while the real wall is being built, taking over the countryside. The animation overruns the documentary footage and changes the way it portrays reality. It stretches the limits of what is seen and what is hidden, and for a fleeting moment reality becomes animated depiction and the animation becomes poetry — until the lull is broken and reality returns in full force. The gates of the wall are bolted closed. In addition to examining the boundaries between reality and representation, between documentary and animation, Mareschal also scorns the various attempts to paint the wall, either in the flimsy attempt to make it appear as a natural barrier or by those venting their protest and identification with the Palestinians.
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