Video Letters from Gaza to aizawl
Director: desire machine collective
Duration: 00:15:40; Aspect Ratio: 1.366:1; Hue: 41.197; Saturation: 0.084; Lightness: 0.468; Volume: 0.210; Cuts per Minute: 12.317
Summary: In a remote corner on the Indian- Burmese border, in Mizoram state, thousands live a suspended life. Most have left their jobs and schools, some have even left their families. They wait in silence to return to the promised land, Israel.
The Mizos believe that they are one of the ten lost tribes of Israel, Bnei Menashe, descendants of Menashe, Joseph‘s son. The waiting unfolds as a religious ceremony, an endless ritual of prayers and a labyrinth of memories. In the midst of these lonely gatherings of the scattered people, their myths, imagination and experiences emerge as a historical fact of singular importance.
The people who has migrated from Aizawl to Israel starts sending video letters to aizawl to ones who are waiting for their aliyah or homecoming.
Bnei menashe
Aizawl
Gaza
Gaza
In a remote corner on the Indian- Burmese border, in Mizoram state, thousands live a suspended life. Most have left their jobs and schools, some have even left their families. They wait in silence to return to the promised land, Israel.
The Mizos believe that they are one of the ten lost tribes of Israel, Bnei Menashe, descendants of Menashe, Joseph's son. The waiting unfolds as a religious ceremony, an endless ritual of prayers and a labyrinth of memories. In the midst of these lonely gatherings of the scattered people, their myths, imagination and experiences emerge as a historical fact of singular importance.
Israel
Mizoram
Video letters
citizenship
history
memory
migration
transnational
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