Prologue
"When I was twenty years old, I read an interview with my favourite Israeli cookbook author. She confessed that for years, her life seemed like an incoherent ‘connect the dots’ game. She was a chemist by profession, as well as a Latin and French academic and was secretly writing short stories. When she turned forty, the dots finally connected. Being a chemist perfects her cooking, she uses French and Latin daily to find inspiration in old recipes and years of writing make her cookbooks pleasurable to read. I admired the beauty of her dot connecting process and had a vision of myself going through the same process one day. Twenty years later, here I am. Taking two years to review, research and investigate- in and through film- who I am as a maker and as a person. Now it's me hoping to connect the dots: the child waking up with a strong fear that "they are all dead"; the young critical, angry and passionate me that is taking photos, the sixteen years old making films and political pamphlets, chaining herself to the first McDonalds in Israel, on the grand opening day to get arrested; the frustrated graphic designer; the VJ that is fascinated with the way mass media uses and misuses beauty and the female body, the volunteer in elderly homes, the literature scholar that is investigating freedom within the existing apparatus, and last but not least the doodling school girl that wants to make her environment a better place.
(preface to my blog's Master)
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