THE ARCHITECTURE OF VIOLENCE
Realizador ANA NAOMI DE SOUSA
Países Palestinian Territory, Occupied, United Kingdom
Duração 25 min
Sinopse
On a journey across the settlements and roads of the West Bank and along the Separation Wall, architect, activist and academic Eyal Weizman demonstrates how architecture is central to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Israelis and Palestinians explain how it feels to live in a landscape where everything, from walls and roads, terraces and sewage, to settlements and surveillance are designed to ensure the separation of the two peoples, while simultaneously maintaining control. Weizman's work on the architecture of occupation has led him to understand the discipline’s role in modern urban warfare. Visiting Nablus and Jenin he explains how the Israeli army pioneered a new kind of modern urban warfare through its deep understanding of architecture. But Weizman has found a way for architecture to resist, his latest project, Forensic Architecture, is way of turning a building’s military wounds into evidence to be used against the state for the investigation of war crimes, with the aid of innovative architectural and visual technologies.
On a journey across the settlements and roads of the West Bank and along the Separation Wall, architect, activist and academic Eyal Weizman demonstrates how architecture is central to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Israelis and Palestinians explain how it feels to live in a landscape where everything, from walls and roads, terraces and sewage, to settlements and surveillance are designed to ensure the separation of the two peoples, while simultaneously maintaining control. Weizman's work on the architecture of occupation has led him to understand the discipline’s role in modern urban warfare. Visiting Nablus and Jenin he explains how the Israeli army pioneered a new kind of modern urban warfare through its deep understanding of architecture. But Weizman has found a way for architecture to resist, his latest project, Forensic Architecture, is way of turning a building’s military wounds into evidence to be used against the state for the investigation of war crimes, with the aid of innovative architectural and visual technologies.