And the alley she whitewashed in light blue

At a time of existential threat to the physical and human environment we live in, Architect Nili Portugali takes us into a deeply intimate journey in the Galilean 'Kabbala' holy city of Tsefat. A childhood journey that unfolds gradually from her present holistic / phenomenological / Buddhist / scientific Point of View, (replacing current thoughts and approaches) to a discovery of profound universal insights of: What is their secret of all those great timeless buildings of the past, cities, villages, tents and temples endowed with beauty and soul in which man feels 'at home', and what is that One pure 'art of making' which is thousands of years old that creates them (and the Arts? at any culture, at any place and at any time. That, via reconstructing in her unique poetic meditative cinematic language her childhood memories engraved on each stone of the invisible city's history with cultural heritage of more than 1000 years that no longer exists, and is totally forgotten. The birth place and hometown of her family since early 19th century, where her grandmother considered by Portugali a "Zen master" founded her hotel, in a small stone building around a patio at the end of an alley in the old city that no longer exists. "Using my body of knowledge and experience I have been accumulating in multidisciplinary creative work in the visual arts; writing and Architecture as my main profession, the film both in form and content, explore and cross new boundaries, and straddle the line between art and cinema“.

Year

2025

Director

Nili Portugali, Architect/Director A.A.Dip

Duration

72 min

Country

Israel

Language

Hebrew