Pierrot Lunaire

The Film "Transforming Urban: Tel Aviv" portraits in quiet but pointed pictures the transformation of urban space in the Israeli coastal metropolis Tel Aviv during Jom Kippur. On the highest holiday of Judaism the loud and hectic city is turned into its opposite by collective power. With Henri Lefebvres words: from a capitalistic space that's spatial practice is circularly reproducing its own conventions into a lived and reflexive space of appropriation. People conquer back city and street space in an impressive way and produce an alternative space. They turn the non-places of the late modern city back into places - even if it is only for 25 hours. Once a year public space in Tel Aviv transforms into the exact opposite of its usual self. Public space is used differently than usual. People take back the city, which was taken from them in the course of modernization and social mobilization.