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VIDEO ART: I'הם ' אני (They) |
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a film by Nili Broyer
 A film about theatre and disability realized by the collaborator
NILI BROYER from Israel. A video art that illustrates the Other’s love/hate relationship with the cultural ideal of perfect body(the “Vitruvian Man” is an example). This video art is a personal project as well as a social-political one.
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The Synopsis of the film
The phonetic similarity of the word “They” in Hebrew and the letter “M” in English is used in the name of this video-art. “I am” as a dominant phrase of selfhood is interrupted and transformed into infusion of society in the self. The conventional binary of “I” versus “They” is literally collapsed.
But what happens to the self when society excludes the individual from its borders?
How can this Other relate to society?
This implies a further question - how can the Other relate to himself or herself?
The film illustrates the Other’s love/hate relationship with the cultural ideal. The sentence “The New Jew”, the soldier’s uniform, the icon of evolution and the “Vitruvian Man” are all hegemonic representations of the ideal body in Israeli society and in western culture. The disabled subjects relate to these icons, communicate with them and act upon them. On one hand, violent images like hanging, stinging and penetration express the resistance to and the struggle with the ideal body. On the other hand, the worship of the ideal body is symbolized by practices of nurturing, sacred ritual, mimicry and sexual desire. As if to demonstrate the complexity of this ambivalent attitude, the same visual images used in the film can interpreted in opposite ways.
This video art is a personal project as well as a social-political one. In some way, the surrealistic scenes embody my experience as different. In that sense, the film gives a glimpse into fragments of freakiness’ consciousness.
To see the video art you need "RealPlayer": free download
See the video art realized by Nili Broyer
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