WBC Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem
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WBC Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem |
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Red Lounge Experimental
Tuesday, 23rd of September 2008 at 7:00 pm (19:00)
Screening and Discussion with the artist
& other Short Films by
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Nurit Sharett is a video-artist living in Tel-Aviv. After an 11-year period in Switzerland Nurit returned back to Israel. Her work examines in a very poetical and personal way the complexity of Israeli Identity.
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Among the selected Works presented in the Red Lounge:
Identity
Every Israeli holds a blue identity card. For almost every bureaucratic transaction one needs to show the ID which also mentions whether one is Jewish or Arab. Nurit has very dark features, though her parents are from Ashkenazi descent. One of the biggest rifts in Israeli society amongst Jewish Israelis is that between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. Nurit uncovers the basis of this rift by deconstructing her identity card in a humourous way.
Independence Day
While filming the flags in Tel Aviv, a passer by approaches the fim
maker.
A conversation begins about topics which are both personal and
political.
A Video Letter to Jacqueline
In a letter to her Swiss girl friend Nurit Sharett expresses her mixed feelings regarding her life in Israel.
Winter at last
Nurit Sharett’s video-film “Winter At Last” is a diptych that
mirrors two letters that speak of love, loneliness and yearning. One letter
is to Jacqueline, a Swiss friend who lives in Zurich; with whom she speaks
in Swiss-German; the other letter is to Abla, a Palestinian friend who
lives in Nablus, with whom she speaks in English. Both video- letters are
composed of identical visual images, and in both of them the
writer-director illustrates the sorrow of parting and the great difficulty
in breaking a contact. She expresses this void in her life by describing
her daily routine on one hand and her political involvement on the other,
while refraining from any comment regarding the essence of interpersonal
relationships and the circumstances that had caused their being cut
off.
This is a film whose narrative lies in the past, in the background. It
seems that the film lacks a narrative because the writer wishes to return
to the old narrative, to the past, which is unfeasible. For that reason she
lives in a kind of static, frozen, continuous present.
(from Yair Garbuz: "Nurit Sharett's Winter at Last")
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Tuesday 23.9.2008 | Open doors from 7:00 pm | The screening starts 7:30 pm
Location:
Red Lounge in the Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem
22, Ein Rogel St, J'lem ( Abu Tor )
www.willybrandtcenter.org/en/red/reviews08/nurit
08.02.2012, 05:02