The Dust Channel
The Dust Channel
Production country:
il
Year:
2016
Duration:
23'
Edition:
2018
Roee Rosen’s film The Dust Channel, previously shown at documenta 14 in Kassel, is a surrealist operetta set in the domestic environment of a bourgeois Israeli family, whose fear of dirt, dust, or any alien presence in their home takes the shape of a perverted devotion to home-cleaning appliances. Rosen associates dust figuratively with sand. The desert obliquely points to specific and current forms of xenophobia. The detention center, where political refugees are held long-term and unrecognized by the state, is in the Israeli desert, and named Holot—the Hebrew word for sand.
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