Michal Pfeffer and Uri Kranot chose Picasso’s Guernica — the iconic artistic protest against the horrors of war and perhaps the most influential painting of the 20th century — as the starting point for their movie God on Our Side (2005). Taking their inspiration from Guernica, their movie deals in the Second Intifada. It is created using complex paper cutouts, both theatrical and pictorial, that portray inescapable cycles of violence and killing in even measures. Much like Picasso’s painting, the most prominent image here is a horse screaming out against human suffering: The animal slumps dead against the wall along the barbed wire fence, symbolizing utter human annihilation. This reference to the “Guernica” creates a dialogue between animation and painting, and it ties the movie to history. It makes the movie an allegorical response to current reality, but also allows it to deal in the human condition.
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