In “Missiles in Ramat-Gan”, which was shot in the summer of 2006 during the Second Lebanon War, Atia and Rose present themselves as reporters from a TV channel with little financial means. On the premise that missiles will no doubt fall in Ramat Gan one day, they interview the public as if they have just fallen, capturing mock-reactions versed in the language of war unique to the Israeli psyche. Participants from the streets of Ramat-Gan were asked to create footage for the TV station that will be used in the future case of missiles falling on the city. In order to do so they had to re-enact images they have seen hundreds of times before in Israeli media – images of citizens a few minutes after a violent act happened, fear, casualties, survivors calling their families etc. They re-enact a terror attack according to the way it has been shaped by the media so that Yossi and Itamar’s fabricated television station can use it. They pre-enact their own deaths in a familiar way so that it can fit into the familiar framework of media coverage. (Eyal Danon)
Also found on the screening program, "Tribal Fire," curated by Eyal Danon. Works in this selection offer a trek along an imaginary time-line that stretches between re-enacting and pre-enacting, between re-visiting and speculating. The artists allow us to visit past events through their re-enactments or speculate on future events by pre-enacting them. Presented at Estampa Art Fair, Madrid, 2008.
Hebrew with English subtitles
Catalogue no. 716 File: Y Catalogue no. 717 File: Y Catalogue no. 897 (screening program) File: Y
Catalogue no. 1126 File: Compilations
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