One donkey and three phrases, 2007
Three-Channel video installation,
looped; wood, mirror; 40 x 30 x 30 each (cm) .  

Produced, directed, edited by Oraib Toukan
Shot by Abdel Salam Akkad  
 
After completing the video Remind me to remember to forget I began researching various animals, and their ability to remember.  Donkeys began to interest me for their particularly strong visual memory, and their experience of mass human exodus in the Middle East.  
One donkey and three phrases, is a three-channel installation of a donkey I worked with to write the phrases ‘I perceived a past,’ ‘I remembered a present,’ and ‘I witnessed a future’.  Each phrase is placed inside a mirrored box that requires the audience to peak inside to view the footage.