The Pit - A Witness Tale

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Aisha Nasser (name changed for privacy) was twelve years old when she saw her neighbor disappear into an open sinkhole on a dusty street in front of her aunt's house in her Palestinian village within the borders of Israel.

This film's starting point is a real story from legal transcripts. At first glance, it appears to be a minor case of little significance, shrouded in dry courtroom jargon. A closer look reveals layers of gender issues, psychography, malingering, and surveillance.

The Pit - A Witness Tale seeks to illuminate the unfathomable phenomenon of disappearance. How might mental disappearance function as a possible way out of an impossible situation, whether intentional or not? And how might the architecture of disappearance be manifested through a film?