The Flâneuse

Lior Yeger’s film, created as part of her studies in the Photography Department at the Bezalel Academy, is a unique and imaginative act of wandering that captures contemporary life in Jerusalem while reflecting on the relationship between photography, perception, and vision. With a camera strapped to her eye like a patch, Yeger embarks on an urban journey in search of a local plant believed to act against depression. A series of chance encounters—born of the constraint she imposed on herself—frames her photographic practice as one that opens up a field of social possibilities while simultaneously obstructing vision itself.

Noa Simhayof Shahaf‘s work is a documentary drift—at times shadowy—through places, periods, cultural scenes, and personal identities. At its center is Eran Levron, an Elvis Presley impersonator. The camera follows Levron as he moves, sometimes with great difficulty, between his familial identity and stage persona, and between the dazzling past he longs to inhabit and the realities of contemporary Israeli life. In parallel, Simhayof Shahaf constructs a stream of semi-staged events set in an escape room where there is no day or night.

Maya Schweizer is a cinematic flâneur. In her work Voices and Shells, she gathers images and sounds collected during her artist residency in Munich, Germany, interweaving them with archival footage. The starting point is the city’s sewer system, from which she ascends to the river that runs through Munich and to the façades of its buildings—including those constructed during the Third Reich. As in her other works, she creates a collage of natural and artificial sounds and layered perspectives on humans and animals, sketching an idiosyncratic portrait of a place and its capacity to bear witness to an era.