June 13, 2003
Barbaria - An Evening Of Post-Zionist Video
SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST 2003
DOORS 7.30PM
Curated by Tai Shani
UK PREMIERES OF FUCKIN PUNK ROCK ART FILMS FROM TEL AVIV
Within this project, UK based artist Tai Shani gives an alternate voice to young people living or who have lived in Tel Aviv. All the films are personal projects; extremely low budget films made without professional conditions, without the aid of college assistance, and produced and edited upon domestic equipment.
Although the works discuss Israeli culture, and what it is like to be in and from one of the most politicised countries in the world, these discussions are secondary to their discussion of culture, and their attempt to form some kind of cultural identity with the personal as politic.
In Shani’s curation, there comes an elucidation of the nature of what it is to be estranged by culture, and permanently in reaction to and soaking up international culture as a second-hand dialogue; the nature of international culture as an imported commodity within Israel.
Thus these films share a common intensity. As the gap between mainstream culture in Israel and subcultures / underground culture becomes increasingly wide, these young filmmakers create a burning fervour, a brutal negotiation of their own terms; the language of fighting for culture, a commentary within a commentary of fighting for the right to exist.
PROGRAMME
Boysgirls : Noaz Deshe 30 mins 2000
Documentary about the treatment of medical hermaphroditism within mainstream medicine, and the ontological issues involved within hermaphroditism for Judaism.
French Film : Keren Cytter 15 mins 2001
Experimental film exploring the nature of migrancy and the Israeli identity by referencing French culture.
Satan Is My Father : Michael Hanegbi 25 mins 2002
Fictional documentary about a boy who wants to bring Satan to earth because he believes him to be his father.
Family : Keren Cytter 5 mins 2002
Freudian non-diegetic sound film exploring the hatred of the family.
The Radicals : Joshua Simon 23 mins 2001
Fictional punk documentary about a group of young intellectuals living in
Tel-Aviv, featuring prolific real-life Tel Aviv film collective the Baboon Group.
Freeland : Rona Yefman 14 mins 2001
Documentary exploring youth culture in Tel Aviv, especially with regards one brilliant mad fat girl and her night out on the town taking smack.
Interval
Search Agent Zerox : Noaz Deshe 60 mins 2001
Utterly unique fictional documentary originally made for the Tel Aviv science channel. Deshe utilises tropes from directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Nation and Philip Kaufman to explore the nature of virtual society and its implications for the human race.
By convincing Tel Aviv TV into allowing him to make a programme, Deshe used this license to infiltrate large scale government meetings and interview heads of the Israel police about the future of the virtual world. These become narrative footnotes to footage of a proselytiser of the future post-human race in the shape of interviews with a real-life eccentric called Boris, which are then linked together with a narrative about the director having replicated himself virtually in order to make the programme we are seeing.
Stunning.
DOORS 7.30, tickets £7 / £5 members
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posted by James on June 13, 2003 07:38 PM