Maree Makom

Lock
A complex code embedded in an editing software
is slicing the image of the woman on the balcony
of the building across into brief slivers: a series of
single frames from an early moment is intermittently
woven within a second series of frames from a
later moment. The old woman’s wear y motion
forward is withheld, is repeated and thwarted,
suggesting at times protest and at times surrender,
and always the personal fabricated projection of
the artist, who inhibits, erases and stages anew
that long moment and that old woman, behind the
stain of grease on the cur tained glass door: it is
three bored hours now that L. is bent over the lens
inside a living room painted airy white, upon the
car ved stone shelves of which are resting dozens
of the books that survived from Y.’s study, before
everything left there was thrown sold given away.
Video Recording Site
Florentine, a working class neighborhood in
the south of Tel Aviv
Low three-four story cement apartment
buildings housing foreign workers side by side
with older local residents and a growing young
artists’ community
Video Recording Occasion
1998. Unstructured assembly of scenes from
the neighborhood’s life
Participants
Aging woman on balcony
L. - An Israeli videographer. At the time in
which the scene is taking place L. is residing
in a three-room apartment across from the
depicted building.
Character alluded to
Y. - L.’s deceased father