Paletina is an inner journey during wartime. A journey that begins in an abandoned apartment on Gaza Street in Jaffa and travels between body, spirit, and changing spaces. The work reveals an intimate struggle with feelings of alienation, belonging, and identity loss, as the external reality - violent, tense, and charged - penetrates into the soul and into the living space, turning it into a laboratory for exploring human fracture and connection.
In a strange apartment, where books, maps, and sculptures tell stories of journeys and memories, Struggle begins - Between personal history and the waves of accusations coming from the outside, between collective trauma and personal pain. This is an arena where the walls speak, the objects whisper, and the person at the center of the story loses grip on the familiar and questions morality, belonging, and justice.
Through documentary documentation, original text, and a stage space that seeks to embody the infinite feeling of displacement, the work deals with the overt and subtle violence exerted on the body and spirit - especially on female body and spirit. The space becomes, on one hand, a distant planet, and on the other, a microcosm of pain and searching, creating a theatrical experience that is both personal and global. It transforms into a character in its own right - an arena where a continuous internal struggle occurs between belonging and estrangement, between the past and the present, between voice and silent scream.
The work moves between documentary and staged reality, between home as a symbol and home as a physical place, turning the intimate space into a universal research area. It examines the search for identity in a world where belonging is a source of power but also a source of conflict.
“Platina” is a conscious journey, a work that seeks to dismantle and reconstruct what we perceive as the "self" in a world where the boundaries between the individual and the collective, between the internal and the external, blur. It is a personal performance that invites the audience to gaze directly into the shattered mirror of their reality - and to find moments of beauty, meaning, and healing within it.
Photography: Uri Rubinstein
Credits
Written, directed and designed by: Itzik Giuli| Performers: Bat El Dotn (appears in the film) Merav Grover, Dan Shapira, Eran Ben Zvi |Assistant director: Bahat Kelchi | Stage and space design: Moshik Yosifov | Costume design: Michal Laor | Lighting design: Oded Komemi | Music and sound: Gal Lev | Cinematography: Nitzan Giladi | Additional photography: Itzik Giuli | Film editing: Tal Kronkopf | Set design: Lee Nevo | Video design for space: Nimrod Tzin | Graphic design: Kobi Levy – ‘Haliga’ | Set design: Chen Ohayon – Art Core | Main producer: Daniel Cohen | Technical team: Ilan Shalom, Berry Twinstra, Damir Talayeb, Tamir Hadar | PR: Rachel Wilner – Impact | Photography: Uri Rubinstein | CEOof 'Nozhar Theater': Talia Ben Ami
Thanks to
Mifal Hapais for its support In production | HADIVE – Elinor, Ronit, Yonatan | Yasmin Goder Studio