Jerusalem (2003)

Jerusalem is the first of four videos followed by Sublimation 2003 Conjunction 2003 and The Pearl 2004 exploring interdimensional travel In this inaugural episode a group of young actors inhabit an empty apartment their behavior taped and edited incamera An analog solarization technique captures their rituals of improvised dance frozen poses and trimming of hair Each cast member recounts painful personal life episodes that unfold like cheap scifi stories of otherworldly abductions familial vanishings strange dreams and reptilian passions