Red Lounge Experimental

Tuesday, 23rd of September 2008 at 7:00 pm (19:00)

Screening and Discussion with the artist

"Winter at Last"

& other Short Films by

Nurit Sharett

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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 )