Theme: Video

BROADCASTING HOUSE - H2 HEBRON, WEST BANK

BROADCASTING HOUSE - H2 HEBRON, WEST BANK

Renovation of a two-story Palestinian home in the Israeli-controlled ('H2') sector of Hebron, West Bank into a community television station, with facilities for video production, projection, and transmission, as well as housing for visiting artists.

Occupied since 1967, Hebron is the only West Bank city with Israeli settlements at its heart, amidst Palestinian homes. To protect the 800 Jews living within, the Israeli army has placed crippling restrictions on the Arab majority of H2 - closing stores, preventing movement, and placing residents under frequent curfews. These policies have brought a mass departure of Palestinians from H2 - turning a once bustling economic center into a 'ghost town'. Those remaining are subject to ongoing harassment by IDF soldiers and attacks by Jewish settlers. Within this reality, video can be a crucial tool for both documentation and deterrence of violence, as well as an instrument for empowering and amplifying the voices of residents - within the community as well as outwards and abroad.

Broadcasting House is situated in an abandoned house in the Tel Rumeida olive grove, on the border zone of a Jewish settlement, IDF base, and Palestinian neighborhood. Israeli building restrictions prevent all new construction in the area, limiting the renovations to those function rather than form. The bottom floor is converted into an apartment, suitable for staff and guests of the station, while the upstairs studio will be a versatile space that consolidates all stages of video instruction, production, and distribution under one roof: a training area; a TV studio; an editing suite; a broadcast control room; and a screening theater.


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