This mock-documentary fictionalizes the life of Ashery’s alter ego, the orthodox Jewish man Marcus Fisher. The grungy film uses footage from interventions, performances and home videos. The film has been shown worldwide.
The work can also be found on the screening program, "Judaism, Israelism, and Messianism" curated by Galit Eilat. The program revisits the image of the "diasporal" orthodox Jew in the wake of various images disseminated in the media during the Disengagement (pull out from the Gaza Strip). Prior to the Disengagement it was commonly held that the New Jew is the mutation currently dubbed "Israeli". During the plan’s implementation, however, it became clear that this was not so; the image of the revisionist pioneer or rugged intellectual has not replaced the images of the diaspora Jew. The ideology that stands behind the religious national movement, the secular national movement, reveals that Zionism, like Shabbateanism, is but another messianic movement which, in its present incarnation, offers redemption through the land and through nationalism. Works offer different views on a world of faith, messianism and xenophobia.
ארכיוני המרכז הוקמו בתמיכת קרן אוסטרובסקי וארטיס
