“Shipping Out” is a documentary using new media and online technology to tell the 
real-life story of Rafael Aboulafia. Born in Palestine in 1893, Abulafia volunteered to serve in the British Army in World War One, hoping to help the British Empire conquer his homeland from the Ottomans whom he saw as a cruel enemy. But war had other plans for him. In April 1915 he shipped out of Alexandria to fight in Turkey in the Galipoli Campaign, one of history’s bloodiest battles. It was then, that he started keeping a diary. “Shipping Out” brings these events back to life, after exactly 95 years, as an interactive, digital, daily updated, blog experience.
The project’s creators, Roni Aboulafia and Shiri Perciger-Cohen, describe “Shipping Out” as an innovative experiment in memory, preservation and, no less important, an experiment in anachronistic media.
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