Dory

by Diego Chamy & Vered Nethe, September 2007

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Dory is the name of a person with a hard-to-describe developmental problem. He is the neighbor of Vered’s parents in the Israeli town of Herzliya. We made footage of him performing one of his usual hobbies, which is to go to the rooftop of the building where he lives and reenact an Arab talk show that he regularly watches on Israeli TV. I made subtitles for this footage that portray a completely different situation: Dory is now an Arab interviewed by a journalist after an Israeli bombing of his hometown. This video was made for presentation at the 2:13 Festival in Athens. The videos presented had to be exactly two minutes and thirteen seconds long. The subject for the 2007 edition of the Festival was "No Spaghetti". It's not clear whether this video matches the subject, but it was nevertheless selected and screened at both 2:13 Festivals in Athens and London, at a time when the second Lebanese war was still very recent.