Synopsis

Sepultura perform "Territory" against stark desert and salt-flat landscapes, while rapid cuts connect their pounding performance to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Images of soldiers, tanks, flags, graffiti, religious texts, worshippers, Bedouins, and crowded urban neighborhoods broaden the song's focus from one dispute to the recurring human struggle over land, identity, and power. The video closes on the Oslo Accords, leaving the band's silhouette in the landscape as a bleak image of conflict unresolved.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was filmed in Israel and the Palestinian territories in 1993, around the time the Oslo Accords were signed.

• Locations included the Dead Sea, Masada, desert areas, and Jerusalem. Andreas Kisser later recalled that parts of the Old City were filmed discreetly because the crew could not shoot everywhere openly.

• Its imagery combines Israeli and Palestinian symbols with Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious references, matching the song's wider criticism of territorial conflict, racism, and political division.

• The video won the MTV International Viewer's Choice award for Brazil at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards.

• It was later included on Sepultura's home-video release *Third World Chaos* and the DVD compilation *Chaos DVD*.