10/12/2025
What does it mean to visualize a history that was almost never documented on screen?
For the 2025 Dan David Prize, we had the honor of creating the film about archaeologist and historian Dr. Bar Kribus, whose work focuses on Late Antique to Early Modern Ethiopia and the history and material culture of Betä Ǝsra’el (Ethiopian Jews).
Together with animator Oren Hen, we used animation to bring to life landscapes, objects and communities that are often missing from the visual record. This is exactly where museums, archives and animated storytelling meet: they make space for histories that were always
there – just rarely seen.