In this clip you see Dr. Ruth Westheimer "leaving Egypt" in Melissa Shiff's Passover Projections.

Melissa Shiff uses video technology and a clip from Cecil B. DeMille's iconic film The Ten Commandments to enact the injunction in the Haggadah: "In every Generation one should feel as if they had personally left Egypt"

With her video installation Passover Projections Shiff is able to place people into DeMille's film so that they are "leaving Egypt"

Shiff sees this as a humourous way of getting people to identify with the subject position of the oppressed.


haggadah Section: -- Exodus Story