The work opens with a peaceful shot of the sea. This shot is interrupted by changing rooster images appearing in the center and by cartoon music.
The next scene is of the artists appear dressed in similar masculine suits, breast feeding with fake breasts in a eucalyptus grove, as they confront the breast-feeding scene from Pausolini’s film Oedipus Rex. The artists imitated the exact camera movements and order of shots, so that the structure of the scene and its theme remains the same. The difference is expressed in the artists’ feminine/ masculine image in contrast to the perfect woman/ mother figure in Pausolini’s film and in the exchange of the beautiful pastoral landscape in the local shabby eucalyptus grove.
The artists point out abnormalities against the fantasy/ stereotype, out of the conflict of rebellion against a well-predicted recurrence: education, marriage, and children.
A constant confrontation and examination of the female image, here also through motherhood. The local Israeli existence is expressed in the musical and textual choices, and function as a further conflict within the definition of femininity, country or homeland as an additional stereotype of a woman.
ארכיוני המרכז הוקמו בתמיכת קרן אוסטרובסקי וארטיס
