Directed by Nina Menkes | 38 mins | 1983
Departing Jerusalem for unknown, arid landscapes, the unnamed protagonist—played by Nina Menkes’ sister, Tinka, in the first of their collaborations—also drifts away, as if compelled by unseen forces, from her orthodox Jewish community and faith. This feminist inversion of Joseph Campbell’s “hero’s journey” is in some sense a mystical document of its own production: the two sisters traveled alone with their 16mm equipment through Israel and North Africa by bus.