Roee Rosen, a painter, novelist, and filmmaker, is a critical contemporary voice in Israel. His work deals with the representation of structural violence, and explores the implications of identities and power struggles through fictionalization and irony. His work The Dust Channel (2016) is a short absurd opera film set in the impeccably decorated household of a bourgeois Israeli family whose fear of dirt and dust drives them to devote much of their lives to home-cleaning appliances. Underlied with surrealist imagery and influence, the opera is interrupted by television clips of advertisements for a powerful vacuum cleaner and Israeli political officials talking about removing refugees. By comparing the government’s attitude towards the refugees to the family’s obsession with cleansing, Rosen render’s the governments’ fixation on purification absurd. Using a fictionalized and ridiculous domestic setting, he draws attention to the source of the governments’ cruelty: xenophobia and fear of “dirt.”