My friend at Tel Aviv Rooftop recently posted this movie, depicting Tel Aviv in 1938, a city under construction. “They built and they will always build” I wonder what this is an archive of, exactly? The town as it was? As it imagined itself to be? A white city?
…and now i am an alien in my own land One day, a couple of weeks ago, anxious, shut-in and tired of reading, I went to the movies in the middle of the day. Film forum was my theater of choice. It was the opening day for “Of time and the city,” Terence Davies’ new film. It was a dreamy experience, not least of all because I was in a movie theater at 2 or 3 in the afternoon, and discovered a whole other world of daytime art-film-goers: people who hacked and coughed constantly, and hissed “Quiet!” at the least sound of popcorn crackling; people who wheezed and snored softly; people who grimaced at the thought that someone might try to share their row.…
