Out of Chaos Comes Life

Art, Culture, Politics from International Zones of Conflict

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Studio Resolution is designed as a not-for-profit corporation to create, promote and distribute works of art and multi-media documentaries as reflections of our contemporary history.

Importantly, the project is being developed to help support artists living and working in international zones of conflict. Their work created in bedrooms, temporary shelters, and on walls and rubble, represents a transient, totally fragile moment in history.

For the artists the work is being created as documentation of their condition, as a cry for recognition, as an emotional escape from the environments surrounding them, and, of course, for their personal creative expression.

Art Under Siege

Original works from artists creating in zones of conflict - Gaza, Sudan, Syria and beyond.

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The Walls Tell No Lies

Street art found in the four corners of our planet from Berlin, to Palestine, to San Francisco

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Peaces of the News

On-going series of collages, all reflecting our incredibly complex and confounding reality.

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We All Live in Gaza

We All Live in Gaza is a feature length documentary chronicling the past, present and future of the Gaza Strip. It has been created as a virtual tour of the territory specifically aimed at decision makers to help break down stereotypes and misconceptions.

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Resolution

Resolution has been designed as a crowd-sourced participatory documentary. Its mission, to research, analyze, evaluate and then draft a scenario for finding resolution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

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Jerusalem: A Living History

Jerusalem: A Living History is a online prototype for an ongoing series of immersive projects focusing on difficult and complex issues.

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Living Histories:
an intermedia experience


To best explain the concept, think of an onion and its many layers. On the outer surface, the layer exposed to the world is traditional news media. They do the job of telling the what, where and when of a story.

What our project addresses is the underlying central question of why, and critically how news events affect the lives of women, men and children who are living the history daily.

“Living Histories” is a unique, intertmedia web portal experience which facilitates user-directed exploration of, in our demonstration prototype, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Using 360 degree panoramas with embedded links as the core navigation tool and augmented with images, texts, articles, and intimate documentary videos, viewers/users will experience the narrative stories of people who are living inside this conflict.

The project is a collaboration of Studio Resolution and Video Free America, both U.S. based companies, with production support from The Media Group, working in Israel/Palestine.

Our designed prototype focuses on the city of Jerusalem and this region’s conflict, but it will become evident that the format can be applied to any region confronting complex issues.

In Jerusalem: A Living History visitors enter the portal at the Jaffa Gate, one of the main entrances into the Old City. Here as they explore the panorama, they will visually find maps, posters, signs, doorways, alleyways, and stories. By clicking any one of these elements visitors will travel deeper into the story they wish to discover. They can enter the homes of residents to learn more about them and their families or go into a book store to read the latest edition of local newspapers, a library to explore historical archives, or the office of travel guides who will take visitors on walking tours of the region.

Introduction and Summary

As a crowd sourced documentary, RESOLUTION has been created to research, analyze, evaluate and then draft a balanced and viable scenario for finding resolution to the stalemated Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

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Documentary Format

Edited segments from over 80 hours of original field footage shot in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and beyond will be combined with twelve virtual studio sessions to create a feature length documentary for streaming, broadcast and theatrical distribution.

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The Documentary Sessions

Over the course of the four month production cycle twelve studio sessions will be recorded. Each session will focus on a key topic relating to the ongoing conflict. Twelve participants will contribute, moderated by a journalist host.

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SESSION ONE - AN INTRODUCTION

SESSION ONE - AN INTRODUCTION

Introducing the session participants, introducing the context of the discussions, and an overview of what's ahead.

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SESSION TWO - THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

SESSION TWO - THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Who lives in the region, the demographics, the physical geography, the culture, the religions, the social norms, the borders and border crossings.

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SESSION THREE - THE HISTORY OF THE REGION

SESSION THREE - THE HISTORY OF THE REGION

An overview of the region's history, from biblical time to the present with an emphasis on the many conquests and occupations.

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SESSION FOUR - WORDS MATTER

SESSION FOUR - WORDS MATTER

A discussion of the many words and phrases used to describe the people and places of the regions and their embedded implications and biases.

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SESSION FIVE - ETHNIC IDENTITIES

SESSION FIVE - ETHNIC IDENTITIES

The focus of this discussion will be on ethnic identity of those who live outside the region today in the Diaspora.

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SESSION SIX - COMMUNITY IMPACT

SESSION SIX - COMMUNITY IMPACT

The discussion will focus on the Gaza community of Izbet Abed Rabbo and that of Netiv HaAsara, an Israeli community very close to the Gaza border.

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SESSION SEVEN - THE LEGACY OF THE HOLOCAUST

SESSION SEVEN - THE LEGACY OF THE HOLOCAUST

A discussion as to how the Nazi Holocaust has affected Israeli history, policy, and public opinion over contemporary history.

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SESSION EIGHT - NATURAL RESOURCES

SESSION EIGHT - NATURAL RESOURCES

A discussion of water rights, land use, oil and gas reserves. Who controls these assets and who controls their allocations.

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SESSION NINE - PROTEST MOVEMENTS

SESSION NINE - PROTEST MOVEMENTS

The discussion will focus on protest movements both inside Israel/Palestine and internationally that are focused on raising the issues of the conflict.

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SESSION TEN - INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT

SESSION TEN - INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT

The focus of the discussion will be the role of the U.S. along with other countries, European and Middle Eastern, to find resolution to the conflict

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SESSION ELEVEN & TWELVE - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

SESSION ELEVEN & TWELVE - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

The entire time in the final sessions will be spent discussing the various options for resolving the conflict.

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  • Redwood City, California, United States

With comments, questions, observations, et. all please write or call. Thank you, Maurice Jacobsen

On February 14th Voices from the Holy Land sponsored a Film Salon
discussion of the preview edit of We All Live in Gaza. The work is
still a work-in-progress, but extended segments from the documentary
can be linked from this page.

Also please find a link to the archived full video of the Salon.

Enjoy...
Maurice

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LINK TO DOCUMENTARY COMPOSITE
https://vimeo.com/355895472

LINK TO FILM SALON
https://www.voicesfromtheholyland.org/online-film-salon-videos/online-film-salon


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