Maree Makom

Stain
When his turn arrived, the only man in the group
went to the star ting point, and walked for ward as
well, a large anonymous black stain, becoming
more and more detailed as he approached the
three women, dark skinned, with a moustache,
peacefully strolling on the shore in an early evening
hour of a Tel Aviv weekday, along an invisible route
about two steps to the left of the one sketched
earlier by a bright woman in sky-blue dress and
smooth brown hair, and unknowingly formed an
almost-double for M., who, several months later,
curled up, he and his brother, in the back seat of a
dusty blue Peugeot with a yellow Israeli plate, will
be brought into a city he knows only through the
foreign words of a Hebrew writer by the name of
Agnon he has recited since the prison years in
Ktsioot, and who will walk there too, along that
same path, drunk to tears from the scent of
the sea.
Video Recording Site
Tel Aviv seashore promenade
Wide paved sidewalk stretching along the
coast, parallel to the beach sand on the one
side, and the cafes and hotel buildings on
the other
Video Recording Occasion
1998. Initial production days of a video piece
by L. and R. where dream-texts written by
R. are used as scripts for scenes shot in
Palestine/Israel.
The current staged scene is designed to
interpret a dream-text in which the possibility
of a random connection between a Palestinian
fighter and an Israeli woman is hinted at,
longed for, and ultimately dissipated by
mutual distrust.
Participants
Moustached man
Woman in bright dress
L. - An Israeli videographer residing in Tel Aviv
R. - An Israeli writer living in Jerusalem
Character Alluded to
M. - A Palestinian man residing in Deheishe
refugee camp who is aiding the two women in
the making of their piece