The Water Issue, OF NOTE Magazine, Spring 2016 The Water Issue | Page 24

Clip from Women of Refaiya . © Water Project – Yoav Shavit , 2012 . Courtesy of artist .
throughout the world in 2012 and 2013 and was met with audiences who felt connected to the narrative and understood how difficult it was to get the story in the first place . However , other than at the University of Tel Aviv , the project was not screened in other places in Israel because Israeli TV stations wanted to screen only the Israeli films from the Water Project , not the Palestinian ones .
According to Shavit and Perlov , the screening of the films would have only attracted a sympathetic Israeli audience who believes something needs to change . Yet for change to occur , it is the people who are not sympathetic that need to see films such as these . In Palestine , they were not able to screen any of the project ’ s films .
Artists , Social Change , and the Role of Journalism ,” at New York University during a visit this spring , he and his crew were able to cross at a commercial checkpoint where several Israeli settlements are found . He visited the village a total of six times , one for research and five for shooting .
Capturing the family ’ s daily life , therefore , hinged upon crossings : a crossing of cultures , as it is an Israeli who takes on the task to tell the story from a Palestinian perspective and a crossing of genders , as it is the story of women from a man ’ s perspective .
While Women of Refaiya , consistently focuses , frame by frame , on the fact that the burdensome responsibility of collecting heavy buckets of water every day falls on the girls , the film deliberately does not engage
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