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Artist Film Festival

Artist Film Festival

Due to the current situation, we are postponing the Artist Film Festival. Once things become clearer, we will announce a new date.
Take care of yourselves, and wishing us all quieter and better days.

Opening of an exhibition by Ayelet Carmi and Meirav Heiman at Ticho House

/ Wednesday, 18.6.25

Bliss

Two new video works are shown in this new exhibition by Ayelet Carmi and Meirav Heiman: Bliss (2025) – screened for the first time – and Zahara (2021), in its museum premiere. Despite being very different, both videos offer visions of a parallel world, one that seems to be familiar, though not of this time and place. Zahara is based on the tragic story of Zahara Levitov (1927–1948), one of Israeli’s first military pilots. The film reimagines what happened after her plane crashed in Jerusalem’s Valley of the Cross, as she and an older woman make their way through modern city streets. In Bliss a group of women escape an unknown calamity to create a new communal life in tune with the seasons and cycles of nature, building a human column that takes shape before our eyes.

Together these works exemplify the conceptual world of Carmi and Heiman: an archetypal female world that bases itself on larger-than-life historical...

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Bliss

How to Read Drawing Films

/ Thursday, 19.6.25

Image-based Conversation

In this collection, Maya Zack offers a perspective on drawing as both an artistic medium and a source of inspiration for video art. In the selected films, drawing is not merely a tool for documentation, but an independent expressive language that reflects on itself, its process, and the creative forces it embodies. The films trace the act of drawing, reconstruct the motion of the drawing hand, or present new interpretations of well-known works. Through the eye of the camera, the material dimension of drawing is emphasized, revealing a medium often considered fragile as one of deep, dramatic creative power and transformative potential.

Maya Zack is an artist, filmmaker, and senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Her works have been exhibited in museums, galleries, and film festivals in Israel and internationally, and are held in prominent public and private collections...

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Image-based Conversation

Nadav Assor and Daniel Davidovsky

/ Thursday, 19.6.25

Fault

“Fault ” is a sculptural audiovisual performance in which Nadav Assor creates multi-layered images on an overhead projector, performing various acts of “excavation” directly on its surface. Though the process involves adding rather than removing material, it gradually reveals underlying structures, substances, and memories—both real and imagined. Using a range of techniques, Assor invites the audience to observe the process of visual investigation, as images take shape and dissolve before their eyes.

The performance will be broadcast live to both festival venues from Providence, Rhode Island, creating a sense of shared presence.

Nadav Assor (b. 1979) lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island and in Israel. He holds a BFA from the Art Institute at Beit Berl and an MFA in Art from...

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Fault

On Artists who Escape and Artists who Remain

/ Friday, 20.6.25

Image-based Conversation

Between video works that imagine departure and those committed to staying, a poetic space of artistic strategies for coping with a conflict-ridden reality unfolds. Dori Ben Alon examines how Israeli artists use the moving image to return to repressed sites of memory and identity, or to propose an alternative mode of being within the existing space. Through the prism of political imagination, she focuses on the ways in which video art allows viewers to experience things that cannot be experienced in physical reality.

Dori Ben Alon is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation focuses on Israeli video art from the past two decades...

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Image-based Conversation

White Land: On Geography and Mining

/ Friday, 20.6.25

Image-based Conversation

A conversation with Spanish artist Rosell Meseguer on her three-channel video instillation White Land (Tierra en Blanco), which is on view at Artport during the festival. The installation is part of her 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.
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Image-based Conversation

Screenings with a Live DJ Set by KVINT

/ Friday, 20.6.25

Pioneers

A multi-sensory nocturnal dive tracing the pioneers of Israeli video art. The screening will feature rare video works accompanied by a live DJ set by KVINT and a black-and-white cocktail. Throughout the evening, we will journey through the art collection of the Israel Museum and the video archive of the Center for Digital Art in Holon, exploring groundbreaking works by local artists who used emerging technologies as raw material for personal and experimental expression.
Among the works shown are early pieces by Michal Naaman, Buky Schwartz, Michael Drucks, and more.
The films are courtesy of the Israel Museum Collection and the Center for Digital Art Holon Archive.

Image: Buky Schwartz, Video Constructions, 1978, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem: Gift of the artist

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Pioneers

Writing in Images: On the Relationship Between Word and Image in Videographic Works

/ Saturday, 21.6.25

Image-based Conversation

What do thoughts look like when written onto a moving image, and how can we think through cinema? Through selected films, Ariel Avissar explores these and other questions by engaging in videographic research, an emerging academic-artistic field that treats video editing as a tool for thought, interpretation, and critique. His talk will focus on the integration of text within cinematic imagery, presenting the range of expressive, investigative, and creative possibilities that this combination offers.

Ariel Avissar is a lecturer and media scholar at the School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University. In recent years, he has actively promoted videography as an academic practice in Israel and has initiated and participated in various international projects in the field. His works have been published in online academic journals and screened at conferences and festivals worldwide.

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Behind the Scenes of Flower

/ Saturday, 21.6.25

Image-based Conversation

This film by Anna Yam and Itamar Rose, which premiered at the 2025 Docaviv Festival in Tel Aviv, follows the relationship between artist Anna Yam and a young woman living on the streets who goes by the name “Flower.” Inside Yam’s car and through her lens, a dynamic emerges between the two women that challenges social conventions and raises profound questions about human nature and the will to live. In their conversation, Yam and Rose will turn their attention to scenes left on the cutting room floor and the dilemmas they faced in distilling 150 hours of raw footage into a single film. These considerations underscore the connection between still photography and video, challenging conventional distinctions between art and cinema.
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Image-based Conversation

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