Work in Progress, April 2026

Short animation experiment using stills from the JDC of Jewish settlers in Crimea in the 1920s and superimposed line animation from the Jerusalem film archive.

Experiment with animating the movement and projection of hand-painted lantern slides of Jewish settlers in Crimea from the JDC archives. I have found about 40 such slides so there is scope to make more and experiment further.

I've started to research and experiment with headlines and excerpts from the Jewish press in the US and Mandate Palestine, to see if I can use them to give a flavour of the ideological polemics of the times and a contemporary outside prism onto the Soviet Jewish colonisation project. I love the newspaper logos and typography and want to experiment further. I reckon they'll need to be more rhythmic (shorter and punchier) and I need to start working with sound. I also want to see if I can get facsimiles from the contemporary Soviet press.