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Artist Film Festival 2025

Artist Film Festival at Artport and Ticho House, The Israel Museum

A weekend filled with screenings, talks, and events dedicated to artist films

Artistic Director: Gilad Reich

Free admission

 

The second Artist Film Festival at Artport and Ticho House is about to begin!

Dates: 18.6.2025 - 21.6.2025

Admission to all screenings and events is free, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. All films are subtitled in Hebrew unless otherwise noted.

We recommend arriving at least 15 minutes before the screening begins to secure your spot. Late entry will not be permitted.

Festival Program

Wednesday

18 06 2025

Thursday

19 06 2025

Friday

20 06 2025

Saturday

21 06 2025

About The Festival

Three years after the inaugural Artist Film Festival at Artport, the event returns—this time as a collaborative initiative between Artport and the Israel Museum, taking place in both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Expanding the festival to two locations aims not only to reach broader and more diverse audiences, but also to spotlight local artists and foreground creative work that engages with a specific place: Israel.

Unlike the first edition, which followed the COVID-19 pandemic and was shaped by the sense of international solidarity that defined that moment, the current festival unfolds amid a time of war, with Israel facing growing international isolation—including in the cultural and artistic spheres. While this year’s program includes a considerable number of works by international artists, its primary focus is on Israeli artists, whether based in the country or abroad. In doing so, the festival fulfills one of its core missions: to serve as a platform for video works that explore the local context through the lens of both art and cinema.

The festival’s emphasis on the here and now also informs the character of the works on view. Many address local history in innovative ways—from employing artificial intelligence to unsettling and deliberate disruptions of the boundaries between fact and fiction. Documentary approaches appear alongside works inspired by the language of narrative cinema, all grappling with current issues by reassembling the past without adopting the rigidity or aggressiveness that often marks the present moment. Even those works that do not directly reference the local landscape may reflect themes deeply connected to it, such as otherness.

We hope that this year’s festival—and especially the first-time collaboration between Artport Tel Aviv and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem—marks the beginning of a lasting tradition. In the chaotic reality we inhabit, this is by no means something to be taken for granted. More important, we hope that the next edition of the festival will take place in a time of peace and calm, and that it will turn its gaze not only to the traumas and wounds that afflict this place, but also to the healing and hope that art can offer.

White Land

Rosell Meseguer’s video installation

Rosell Meseguer’s three-channel video installation On Geography and Mining, from her White Land (Tierra en Blanco) project, is part of the Spanish artist’s ongoing investigation into mines—not only as the source of minerals, but also as components of a global network of economic affiliations and societal relations. The installation exemplifies the idea of a “journey,” which is central to Meseguer’s artistic practice. It enables us to view mining, saltpeter, and salt flat landscapes in Sweden, Bolivia, Chile, and southern Europe, especially Spain. By juxtaposing different sites, landscapes, and chemicals, Meseguer draws attention to the recurrence of the same issues around the globe.

The artist describes her goal as the creation of “an audiovisual archive of past and present times on the relationship between industry and economy, between past times of inactive saltpetre works and present times of active mines: a story about industry and its capacity to change politics, society and landscape.” Her documentary archive seeks to make the presence—or absence—of these sites tangible. Next to the video installation, a small library of Meseguer’s publications provides context for the project within her artistic oeuvre.

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Getting There:

Artport Tel Aviv – 8 Ha’amal Street, Tel Aviv | Ticho House, The Israel Museum – 10 HaRav Agan Street, Jerusalem
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Artistic Director
Gilad Reich 
Manager & Curator
Vardit Gross 
Producers
Estee Balsam, Naama Haneman
Assistant Producer
Shiraz Reiner 
Social Media, Website
Nitzan Gaon