This short film takes its title from Dante and Borges, as it considers how we see and understand the processes of war and occupation through archival footage of the Israeli military. Director Kamal Aljafari edits together scenes of the Israeli army conducting tests and strategies in the desert. The images feel at once like documentary footage and staged training in a remote and obscure location. Brilliantly spliced together scenes make military maneuvers comical, mundane, and surreal.

“It’s going to be quite soundless; the roar of our aircraft is drowning everything else. We are running straight into the most gigantic of soundless fireworks in the world, and here we go to drop our bombs.”

––Kamal Aljafari