Boaz Arad mouths the words to a heart-felt and gut-wrenching song while his ventriloquist doll of great likeness accompanies and listens to his woes. The song explores his loneliness, ”My soul is wondering and crying, but there’s no one to respond. Why does she avoid me? And why am I alone? Ah, until when, my Lord, shall I remain alone?”
Also found on the DVD: The Zionist Ventriloquist - a compilation of video hits curated by Roee Rosen. The Zionist Ventriloquist brings together Israeli video works based on pop, rock and other musical tunes. All of the featured works employ practices of doubled voices, such as drag, karaoke, puppet mastering, mash-up and dubbing. These are performances that relish the pleasures of singing and dancing, even as they bind them with parody and deception, self-contradiction and simulation. This collection, then, is both a compilation of artworks, a lopsided sequence of music clips, and an ongoing reflection on the voice as a hybrid.
Also part of the project ”Video Bar” curated by Yuval Orly.
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