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Orientation
by Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat
2015, 12”
Presented at Lo schermo dell’arte 2021 in occasion of the exhibition Directing the Real: Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s
The film is part of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images – 6th edition
Courtesy of the artists
Looking at two locations –the public sculpture White Square in Tel Aviv, and the shrine of Palestinian village Salame in today’s Israeli Kafar Shalem – Orientation focuses on the ability of architectural material, and of sound and image, to register collective forgetfulness. In 1989, the Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan completed his sculpture White Square commemorating the founders of Tel Aviv – among whom his father Abraham Karavan. The remains of the shrine of Salame, in today’s Tel Avivian neighborhood Kfar Shalem, are located a few hundred meters south of this hill. The abandoned domestructure was once at the centre of the ancient Palestinian village occupied and depopulated in 1948 by the Israeli Army. Today the ownership of the land is still in dispute and the Jewish-Israeli residents are threatened with evacuation due to a construction-corporations’ plan to build a new profitable neighborhood.
In their practice, Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat (1983 Denmark/Israel, they live and work in Brussels) focus on the performative aspects of the moving image. In their work they aim to mark the spatial and durational potentialities of image reading – moving or still; the relations between spectatorship and history; and the temporality of narratives and memory. Their works have been shown in film festivals as IDFA and Rotterdam Film Festival; Courtisane; New Horizons; on ARTE/WDR; exhibited in solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel and Argos, and group exhibitions in STUK; EMAF and The Petah-Tikva Museum for Contemporary Arts. Their works have been produced by Auguste Orts and Argos and distributed by EYE institute, they have won prizes in IMAGES and Oberhausen Film Festival.