A few more pictures from the weekend, from the port city of Yaffo (Jaffa). More than other cities, Yaffo embodies the combination of the ancient, the rather new and and augmented. The city itself is dived into two sectors:
The old city of Zohar HaNegev has a formidable presence in the midst of the Israeli desert, gazing over The Dead Sea. Sitting a top a 2000 year old warren of streets and avenues and rising to as many as 15 storeys high, these 4.5 acres of solid building were once home to 15,000 people living autonomously from government authority.
How did it come about? And why has it been abandoned? Many stories have been woven to explain its clearance. But which one is true?
Born and raised in Israel, Michael Fallik trained at the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv, Vancouver Film School in Canada, and is currently studying for his master’s degree in animation at the University of Southern California. He has worked as a storyboard artist and cinematic director in Singapore, and has animated and directed twelve animated shorts, including the award winning The Heart Collector in 2005. In 2007 he was awarded a certificate of merit at the Annie awards for contribution to the ASIFA Animation Archive in Burbank, California.
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