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Ayn Hawd is a
Palestinian village that was captured
 and
depopulated by Israeli forces in the 1948 war. In 1953 Marcel Janco,
a Romanian painter and a founder of the Dada movement, helped
transform the village into a Jewish artists' colony, and renamed it
Ein Hod. This documentary tells the story of the village's original
inhabitants, who, after expulsion, settled only 1.5 kilometers away
in the outlying hills.
This new Ayn Hawd cannot
be found on official maps, as Israeli law doesn't recognize it, and
its residents, deemed "present absentees" by the authorities, do not
receive basic services such as water, electricity or an access road.
Rachel Leah Jones' filmmaking debut is a critical look at the art of
dispossession and the creativity of the dispossessed.
Type:
Documentary
Director:
Rachel Leah Jones
Year:
2002
Time:
48 minutes
Produced by:
RLJ Productions (USA) and Momento! (France)
Language:
Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
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