Born 1978, Israel
2006 / BFA, Department of Photography,
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design,
Jerusalem

There are Many Houses Here is the title of a work that includes a video and
still photographs incorporated into the video. The work is comprised of
independent units of static image and moving image. Each unit functions as a
part. Each unit is an event linked to a part of a story, representing a fragment
from a more elaborate narrative, endeavoring to distill a specific moment
taken out of a bigger plot and give things shape. Together they create a mosaic
of an “audio visual” segment, influenced by the world of theater and cinema.
The sound has a great importance. The multiplicity of units in a dark space
forms a consciousness flow chart (manifested through movement and bodies
in space) with a distinct narrative charge.
 
The decision to create the video is related to a certain wall I often
photograph in my mother’s house in Jerusalem – a wall with a window,
a curtain, central heating, a carpet and a piano that was once played. My
family members are incorporated/ photographed in series of works I’ve taken.
Whenever they appeared in the photograph, I'd call them by their name rather
them by their family designation. Later on they have changed their identity in
accordance to whatever surrounded them in the photograph.
 
Excerpt from the script:
Mother holding Daniel, who is sprawled on the floor through her arms, by
his armpits. He is dragged on the floor, mother is crouched. Enters the frame
from left to right.
A carrier handle in the stairwell without any baggage.
A dialogue conducted not with words, but with the physical positioning of the figures.
Mother sits in front of the mirror. Looks into the mirror.
Daniel by himself in fits of laughter. Daniel, mother and Natalie in fits of
laughter.
Tel Aviv central bus station. Decaying buildings.
Cans collector brushing his legs over and over again.