This video is shot in one of the few “routes” through which Palestinians try to enter Jerusalem from parts of the West Bank. Shot during the month of Ramadan in a sewage culvert beneath Beit Hanina (a Palestinian neighbourhood of Jerusalem divided by walls and checkpoints), Journey 110 is visually haunted by half invisible bodies wading through fetid darkness to reach a distant light at its end. “The ‘Journey of Light’ is often described as floating upwards peacefully through a long journey of intense darkness toward a narrow entrance in delivering light. It is also a well known leitmotif in film and television, deployed as a passage way to heaven or “to the other side” for dying or ghostly characters. It is the passage through this 110 meters that distinguishes the ghosts from the angels.” (KJ)
