Film 5 · TSILA HASSINE

"Home away from home"





Last winter, I traded Israel’s Mediterranean sun for the white snows of Zurich, leaving family and friends behind. The Internet made it much easier to be away from home – chats, online newspapers and webcams created a temporary, virtual feeling of a home away from home. But when my homesickness got the better of me, I needed something stronger, something tangible, something I could actually taste.

In Kreis 5, I found a local heaven. On every street corner, I found some Falafel takeaway joint. Whenever I entered such a place, I was immediately transported to my favorite fast food restaurant in Tel Aviv. This time, however, instead of my Israeli friend, I found a friendly Lebanese behind the counter… a neighbor, actually, that I never had a chance to meet, whose homeland I have never visited, could not visit. A stranger-neighbor who offered a momentary feeling of being at home, away from home.







Credits

   Spot   Take-Away Hafnerstrasse
   Künstlerin    Tsila Hassine


Tsila Hassine

Tsila Hassine grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she completed B.Sc's in Mathematics and Computer Science. She spent 2003 at the New Media department of the HGK Zuerich, and in 2004 she joined the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, where she is pursuing an MA in Media Design.