Uriel Orlow : Unmade Film

"The works assembled under the title Unmade Film take as their starting point the mental hospital Kfar Sha’ul in Jerusalem. Initially specialising in the treatment of Holocaust survivors - including a relative of the artist - it was established in 1951 using the remains of the Palestinian village Deir Yassin that had been depopulated in a massacre by Zionist paramilitaries in April 1948. Unmade Film probes the spatial and narrative layering of the Holocaust and the Nakba, addressing conflicting narratives without comparing them and engaging with blind spots of remembrance and psychological aspects of trauma and haunting."-

Unadme film is an expansive collection of audio-visual works that point to the structure of a film but never fully become one. The diffrent elements evolved out of exchanges and collaborations with psychologists, historians, musicians, pupils, actors and others.