Presented on four monitors, "A Tank Translated," compiles footage of separate conversations with four crew members of an Israeli Army tank. Each crew member (commander, driver, gunner and loader) was interviewed separately after being released from the army and asked about his perception of the environment he was in, both the interior space of the tank which constitutes his unique working environment as well as the environment surrounding the tank.
The conversations were conducted in Hebrew, then edited and translated faithfully with running subtitles. However, as the English subtitles line the bottom of the screen in the video, the translated text begins to chip away at itself through visible alteration. Although often betraying the soldiers’ descriptions and disrupting the reading process, as the new narrative is built, the alterations also attempt to carve out a space in the flow of an interview at the very moment which normally calls for the tacit collaboration of interviewer, interviewee and viewer.
ארכיוני המרכז הוקמו בתמיכת קרן אוסטרובסקי וארטיס
