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Letter to a Friend

Emily Jacir

A close friend is asked to start an investigation before an inevitable act occurs. Interlacing images, textures, movements, traces, and sounds from over a century, letter to a friend recounts in minute detail a home and street in Bethlehem.   In Letter to a Friend, artist Emily Jacir writes a letter to her friend, Eyal, after a military situation on her street leaves it strewn with empty canisters of the Triple Chaser, a particularly destructive type of teargas. Her letter is an intimate and intricate recounting of her street, its history and her family’s past. Interlacing images, textures, and sounds from over a century, Jacir unravels layers of this ancient city, and the constant threat it lives under.
Country: Palestine
Time: 43
Year: 2019