Impakt Event: Yael Bartana   Yael Bartana studied Fine Arts in Jerusalem, New York and Amsterdam and exhibited her work at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, BuroFriedrich in Berlin and at the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven. Her work Summer Camp was exhibited at the Documenta 12 in Kassel. And her latest work Mary Koszmary runs at Montevideo/NIMK in Amsterdam until 12 May. At the Impakt Event, Yael Bartana will show 'A Declaration', 'Summer Camp', 'Mary Koszmary' and talk about her work. At the presentation, she will be interviewed by Charles Esche (director of the Van Abbe Museum). Galit Eilat, director of the Digital Art Center in Holon, will provide a short introduction to her work. Date: Monday 28 April, 2008, 19.00 hours Location: Film Theater 't Hoogt, Hoogt 4, Utrecht Admission: 7,50 Euro (CJP/U-pas: 6 Euro) Reservations: 't Hoogt: + 31 (0) 30 - 232 83 88 / info@hoogt.nl Film Program Mary Koszmary, Yael Bartana (Israel 2007) Until WW II, Poland had the largest Jewish community in the world. In the postwar period, many of the 180,000–240,000 survivors chose to emigrate from communist Poland. The film is sets in an abandoned stadium in Warsaw, using propaganda films style, calling for three million Jews to return to Poland. The protagonist is Slawomir Sierekowski, a young radical polish leftist who claims for a radical change in his country. Summer Camp, Yael Bartana (2007) In July of 2006, Yael Bartana documented the fourth summer camp initiated by ICHAD, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Palestinians, Israelis and citizens of various other countries gathered in the camp to build a house in the village of Anta. The video, "Summer Camp," raises questions regarding the perception of dissent, which is usually understood as demolishing rather than building. In Bartana's work, the Israeli ethos of construction and revival turns into a protest mechanism that Israelis and Palestinians use against the state of Israel Awodah, by Helmar Lerski (1935) This landmark documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine. With striking visuals and a remarkable soundtrack by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the film records the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and extols the idea of a socialist Jewish state. Footage includes shots taken at the Jaffa port and on various kibbutzes of the time; Strasbourg-born director Lerski's expressive style creates an almost mythic image of the Jew in Palestine, toiling and triumphing amidst the sweeping desert landscape. Sallah Shabati, Ephraim Kishon (1964) A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet" - a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was formed - is forced to move to a government settlement camp. The patriarch of the family, portrayed by Chaim Topol, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. |
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