An experience not unlike the French writer Hervé Guibert's notion of the Ghost Image, Impulse Fever uses the surrounding textures of Bethlehem and neighboring towns to probe the act of capture and its temporalities. Images include an abandoned Ottoman era home in Ramallah and an illustrated medical book. The film essay is told from a first person narrative, and weaves ruminations on images that refuse to be made - literally and literarily . The film is autographical; recalling not a singular or unique experience but rather the unremarkable sublime that exists from using digital photography and the sensations it brings – especially within surveyed, overcalculated ideas of landscape
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