CLOSED MILITARY ZONE TRAILER

CLOSED MILITARY ZONE TRAILER

Closed Military Zone is a theater of the absurd, touching human moments, and an incisive, action packed look at a weekly ritual of wasted energy and pointless friction between the Israeli Defence Forces and the civilian population of the Palestinian village of Bil'in.

Eran Vered is a political and social activist, and also a video photographer. For several months, Eran has been visiting Palestinian villages and documenting the protests against the route of the separation wall. He has spent most of his time in Bil'in, whose residents have lost more than half their land to the route of wall. After one such protest, on July 8th, 2005, he invites his friend, journalist Rick Berman, to watch the footage.

The result is Closed Military Zone, which began as a look at a handfull of demonstrations and grew into a three-month tracking of a conflict between one side, equipped with guns, grenades, and advanced protective and communications gear, and another side, which consists of adults who insist on protesting an injustice, and 15 year old kids who have nothing but rocks to offer against all that might.

The first three demonstrations, which all took place in July 2005, are astounding in their structural similarity.

Again and again, IDF soldiers repeat the same stages, despite the unflattering results.
Closed Military Zone focuses on clashes and scenes of violence in the wild east, and does so almost exclusively from the rarely seend view-point of IDF soldiers.

by tellingthetruth