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Videos
by Elyasaf Kowner
Murder Here by Artist, 6:30, 2008
6:40, 6:40, 2008
Ya Syndrome, 5:10, 2008
Jodey, 1:00, 2007
The Laundromat, 1:40, 2006
Polania, 2:10, 2006
Red Light/Red Heat, 5:30, 2006
Learning Pain from Trees,
3:00, 2005
In my Home, 11:30, 2005
The Handed Thread, 5:00, 2005
Making Poems in Writing, 4:00, 2005
Houdini Triptych, 0:18, 2005
Green Grass, 3:30, 2004
Dynamism of a Phone Booth, 0:40, 2004
Le Rendez-vous, 7:00, 2004
Snow Way, 4:00, 2004
Understood Nothing, 5:00 min, 2004
Violent Emotion, 3:00 min, 2003
Around the Fire, 11:00 min, 2003
Fufyk, 4:00 min, 2003
Aftershock, 13:00 min, 2003
The Road to Knowhere, 2:30 min, 2003
Dual Movie, 15:00 min, 2002
Call Me, 03:00 min, 2002
Sunset, 8:30 min, 2002
Car Portraits, 05:00 min, 2002
Perfect Form, 01:00 min, 2002
Diamond on the Beach, 7:30 min, 2001
Amne, 08:30 min, 2001
Dad Explains about Weapons and Numbers, 5:00 min, 2001
Every Time I am (reading) Somebody,
4:00, 2001
In the Center, 15:00 min, 2001
The Painting, 7:00 min, 2001
On the Shoulders, 4:00 min, 2000
Up and Down, 4:00 min, 2000
Sea Baby, 03:40, 2000
After My Death, 12:00 min, 1999
Measuring the Distance on a First Winter’s Day, 46:00 min, 1997
{another list}
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the Fire
2003, [1st version - 11:00 min]
[2nd version - 5:00 min]
The Bereshit music festival takes place in
the Sea of Galilee on the eve of the Jewish New Year. The
work of Elyasaf Kowner, filmed during the last Bereshit festival,
shows how young generations of Israelis attempt to find their
own path to reconstruct their cultural history. People seek
fusion of rituals, myths, practices, by borrowing from various
cultures and cults (tribal rites, shamanism, Buddhism, paganism,
among others) and re-giving to human being and nature a central
place. This path of syncretism, at the crossroads of multiculturalism,
quest for spirituality, opening to different worlds and societies,
can be seen as one possible collective, civil, alternative
to the references imposed by the dominant political discourse
– an escape from reality.
Text by Agricola de
Cologne
Selected screenings:
Local Time #7, Tel Aviv Cinematheque, 2004
15, Haifa Museum, Haifa,
2005
PI
Five Video Festival, Szczecin, Poland, 2005
Photography by Elyasaf Kowner
Edited by Elyasaf Kowner and Ben Ben Ron
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