The War Prayer

Artist: Jenny Marketou
Production year: 2008
Duration: 00:04:02
Catalogued as: SOCIAL/POLITICAL, CULTURE/IDENTITY

Galleries:
Anita Beckers

My video, which is based on the re-enactment of the act of prayer, is performed by an unknown woman who believes in the Islamic faith. The video is shot in a realistic and subjective documentary style. The camera focuses on the kneeling body of a woman in a traditional dress, whose face and head is covered with a white veil, which both reveals and hides her identity as a Muslim. The camera captures and manipulates the poetics of the gestures of her body while she is praying transforming it into ...

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