MONTAG, 2017
HD-Video, 5'41"
Original Score: Isaac Shushan
In the summer of 2014 missiles fell on Tel Aviv. In those stormy days — during which neighbors, Jews and Arabs, crowded together in stairwells — someone set fire to a dumpster on the street in an act of protest. The chaos, the anxiety, the growing distress formed fertile ground for a spontaneous protest, which remained anonymous and thus refined, a protest for protest’s sake only. Inside the building — co-existence in the shadow of war; in the street — fire blazing, a small drama. In a neighborhood rife with contrasts, in the center of a city “with a past” of biblical and national, cultural and political myths, currently undergoing accelerated gentrification and gradually losing its fine balance in favor of “market forces” — a cry was heard, which was not formulated as a demand or a complaint, but remained raw and impulsive. In the light of the flames — a predesignated, age-old sign of civil uprising — the public sphere was experienced as a wrestling arena. The work is named after the protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451 (the temperature at which paper burns, and, by extension — books are consumed by fire): a dystopian science-fiction novel unfolding a bleak vision of a futuristic social order under a totalitarian regime.
Screenings:
2019 'ΞΟΥΘ Festival', Athens, Greece. ARTENS: curator: Evi Peterson, Get [it] out of your system, Curator: by Gioula Papadopoulou
2019 Videolands, MOMus, Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2018 Nightlight TLV Festival, Tel Aviv-jaffa, Israel.
2018 Balkan Can Kino - 1st BCK Film Symposium, Athens
2018 Video Art Miden Festival, Kalamata, Greece
2018 Beer Sheva Short Film Festival, Old city, Beer Sheva, Israel
2017 'Citizens', Petah-Tikva Museum of art, Israel
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