Sukkah

Title: Sukkah

Year: 2001

Measures: Variables

Technique: Video MiniDV (color, sound). Music by Memo Dumay in 2006

Duration: 12’00"

Edition: 2/5

Portrait of a city casual in four scenes. Each fall, the neighborhoods Orthodox Jews of Brooklyn in New York starring a drastic transformation. According to the religious scriptures, with the aim of commemorating the Exodus and as an act of humility after the abundance of the harvest, a temporary structure known as a sukkah (plural: sukkot) must be built to weather and inhabited for seven days. The rite involves the transfer of all the household activities at this cabin: living, eating, sleeping, share, read, sing, pray, and shaking the 4 plant species. This tradition originates from the existence of an ephemeral city, latent in a text, that materializes cyclically by the faith of its inhabitants, and overlaps in the urban fabric of the contemporary city. This video was filmed from the public space, in the neighborhood of Williamsburg South, which is mainly inhabited by the Jewish community, orthodox Satmar.

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