Wall

Aroview: A visual and aural rumination on the physical divide between Israel in Palestine, this observant documentary never motions to take sides, meditating instead on the ongoing construction and surveillance of a 500 kilometre concrete partition separating Palestinians from Jews.

Characterised by a scarcity of face-to-face interviews, Bitton’s intentions are less investigative than they appear to be. What her film lacks in personal testimony though, it makes up for as a distinctly personalised, pictorial document of a symbolic barrier in ceaseless Middle Eastern unrest.

NZ International Film Festival 2005

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