Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Filmmakers Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi went on a road trip in the summer of 2002 from just outside Gaza in the south of Israel up into the Galilee in the north. All along Route 181, the original partition boundary established by the UN in 1947 that was abrogated by the 1948 war, they let their videocam roll on the theory that the vox populi would represent a greater truth about Israel than what we’ve heard to date. Silvan is an Israeli, Khleifi a Palestinian.
What they didn’t do is as significant as what they did. There are no TV setups in front of the Knesset, the Dome of the Rock, or the Wailing Wall. They didn’t talk to any big-picture players, thinkers, or scholars. The result is a decontextualization of history.
Filmmakers Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi went on a road trip in the summer of 2002 from just outside Gaza in the south of Israel up into the Galilee in the north. All along Route 181, the original partition boundary established by the UN in 1947 that was abrogated by the 1948 war, they let their videocam roll on the theory that the vox populi would represent a greater truth about Israel than what we’ve heard to date. Silvan is an Israeli, Khleifi a Palestinian.
What they didn’t do is as significant as what they did. There are no TV setups in front of the Knesset, the Dome of the Rock, or the Wailing Wall. They didn’t talk to any big-picture players, thinkers, or scholars. The result is a decontextualization of history.
