"Gitai...achieves one of the most beautiful things a camera can register 'live', as it were: people who look at the same thing but see different things-and who are moved by that vision. In this crumbling shell of a house, real hallucinations begin to take shape."-Serge DaneyWhile studying architecture at UC Berkeley Amos Gitai made a number of documentaries for Israeli television. In House, Gitai's investigation of the history of a single house reconstructs the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in microcosm. It is history in classic Gitai-style-on the level of the individual and the everyday. Twenty years later he made A House in Jerusalem. Gitai returns to the same house and examines it in relation to present-day Israel. In one of the most telling moments, a Palestinian doctor who was born in the house before it was expropriated, comments: "To see something that is yours but to be unable to go inside, words cannot describe it."