"Troubled Water"

video art by MiriNishri (2007) English subtitles

Gita (85) is uprooted from her home in the kibbutz and forced into a nursing home. As her consciousness crumbles, personal memories of escape, loss and persecution mix with current realities shown on television.
The unification of these moments in time seeps into her daughter, creator of this work, who is condemned to perceive reality in the same way. Troubling nightmares absorbed from her mother as a child are now shot at her from the television screen in the form of a trapped Palestinian girl.

"Troubled Water" - video instalation

Viewing The installation site
Segments from the installation at the "Tel Aviv Artists House"

Like the sun, the video-art perpetually sets and rises into the cellar wall. A search light passing time and again, wraps the barren surroundings with circular static time, lights up and freezes fragments of clothing, a toy sailboat and a turned over bed washed a shore.