On this DVD are out-takes from The Confessions of Roee Rosen, which begins with the artist’s announcement that he is about to die. He disavows a career replete with lies, scandals, and fake identities. However, his confession are delivered by three surrogates – all foreign female workers residing in Israel – who deliver the monologues in Hebrew, a language they do not speak. Their monologues are based on Rosen’s life but are simultaneously plausible as statements a foreign worker might make. Tackling such charged themes as the exploitative representation of the Holocaust or scatological fantasies, the confessions constitute a peculiar speech act in which the speakers ignore what they say.
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