| Mireille Astore | ||
3494 Houses + 1 Fence |
3494 Houses + 1 fence is a 6 minute video.

The street
scape of Broken Hill, "the accessible outback" country town
of Australia, is seen from the viewing platform of a Lebanese reality.
Houses, neat, some pretty, some with children playing in front collide
with sounds remembered from so long ago, maybe from one of Beirut's many
wars, maybe even from future wars. |
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There,
exponential repetition sets apathy on a collision course with fear where
mangled silences interrupt - but only to disrupt the remnants of safe
living and to send eidetic shock waves through rose-colored lenses. The
question of responsibility then emerges to demand, if not an answer, then
a pause for grief, for consideration due to the boundaries of the senses
and the centrality of the body's - any-body's - pain and sorrow. |

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