Zohar Elefant
Israel 2010 ⎮ 13 Minuten ⎮ Hebräisch ⎮ Deutsche & Englische Untertitel
Ein Fussballmatch als emotionales Drama eines Fans auf der Galerie. Die Lust am Ausgeliefertsein verkehrt sich in aggressive Ausbrüche. «How can one love so much?», singt Sivan zum Rhythmus der Trommeln, beschimpft die Spieler und schmeichelt ihnen, weint Tränen der Verzweiflung, hebt beschwörend die Hände. Grimassen einer quälerischen Liebe.
Sivan is a documentary video piece which diverge the gaze away from the players' movements on a soccer field, focusing instead on the facial expressions of a single viewer. Turning the camera away and fixing it on an individual character amidst the crowd serves to lure the viewer into the real drama of the event, which takes place discretely inside the mind of every fan in the gallery. There is something primal on the verge of primitive in the soccer arena. Sivan suggests a quick yet deep glance on Human Nature. Sivan exists in the tension between the cinematic means that make up a structured experience and a more distant gaze that keeps the questions of authenticity and individual expression open. From within this suspense the video invites us to look at the act of looking itself.
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