De Oylem iz a Goylem

Omer Fast’s film is a representation of the relationship between the human and the supernatural. In a mountain resort, a lone skier meets the ghost of an Orthodox Jew, who appears sitting next to her in the chairlift. The apparition tells a Jewish fairy tale full of stereotypes: a greedy Jew, a submissive wife, a seductive devil-woman. In a continuous intertwining between past and present, reality and fairy-tale, the film alternates scenes set in the Middle Ages inhabited by characters with large fake noses, with footage shot at the ski resort, where the flesh-and-blood ghost is a dissonant, surreal element. Like the protagonist, who must break the boundaries between the real world and fairy tales to exorcise the ghost, the viewer must reflect on his own beliefs and wonder if, as the title says, the world is a Golem.