We're always trying to avoid being in the darkness, not knowing, and also encountering animals. There's something about them not wanting to be seen; they go out at night, they hide, they don't want to be shown. It's very interesting genetically that they have to hide from us actually. Between themselves, they smell each other, but there is this thing of hiding, of suspicion.
Michal RovnerThat's what animals do all of the time; they watch out, they watch out, and I saw, "This is us now." Us, the world, we are watching out.
Michal RovnerYou can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.
Michal RovnerI like Palestinians in the morning when they come and we talk but in the evening, who knows, maybe they don't know that I'm nice.
Michal RovnerI always start with reality, in anything I do, everything I do, I always start from something real.
Michal RovnerThere's something about night and day, and life and death, but animals are also mentioned a lot of times in the bible, showing up in places of desolation, or after destruction, or after the humans left the place, suddenly they would show up.
Michal RovnerPanorama is the first word for landscape in Greek. It was about [how today] we see everything, we get to see everything, everything is shown to you whether you want it or not, but all of the time you only see fragments of reality. The big picture we really don't see; it's kind of hard to make it up.
Michal Rovner