Elephant magazine
Virtual Borders in a Harbour Town– Josie Thaddeus-Johns reports from the new-media-focused Screen City Biennial in Stavanger, Norway.
“Dana Levy’s three-screen video, This Was Home (2016), is a dive through her family’s diasporic past. The artist, her father and grandfather each return to the homes they grew up in (the USA, Egypt and Poland, respectively). Her father, who grew up in Egypt before moving to Israel, expresses something of this strangeness when he explains: “Egypt is the only place I never had an accent.”
