About
Staring Back at the Sun: Video Art from Israel, 1970-2012, a video exhibition and public program, traces the development of contemporary video practice in Israel and highlights work by artists who take an incisive, critical perspective towards the cultural and political landscape in Israel and beyond. Staring Back at the Sun showcases 35 works by 38 artists, including early performances, films and videos never before presented outside of Israel. Divided into four historic and thematic sections, Staring Back at the Sun focuses on the activist impulse in video art-making in Israel over the last four decades. Informed by the international history of video art, the program traces the development of the medium in Israel and explores how artists have employed technology and material to examine the sociopolitical status quo, through themes such as the prominence of political conflict in mass media; the liberalization of the economy; and the impact of free market politics on Israeli culture.
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Checklist
Boaz Arad
(b. 1956, Afula, Israel, based in Tel Aviv)
Gefilte Fish, 2005, 10:54 minutes
Yossi Atia & Itamar Rose
Yossi Atia (b. 1979, Jerusalem, Israel, based in Tel Aviv), Itamar Rose (b. 1979, Tel Aviv, Israel, based in Tel Aviv)
The State of Judeo-Arabia, 2007, 4:33 minutes
Yael Bartana
(b. 1970, Kfar-Yehezkel, Israel, based in Berlin and Tel Aviv)
Kings of the Hill, 2003, 7:45 minutes
Irit Batsry
(b. 1957, Ramat Gan, Israel, based in New York)
The Roman Wars: 1983, 1983, 6:00 minutes
Guy Ben-Ner
(b. 1969, in Ramat Gan, Israel, based in Tel Aviv)
Moby Dick, 2000, 12:39 minutes
Michael Druks
(b. 1940, Jerusalem, based in London)
Play-Box London, 1975, 7:56 minutes (excerpt of 22:41)
Benni Efrat
(b. 1936, Beirut, Lebanon, based in Tel Aviv)
Relay, 1974, 3:48 minutes
Avraham Eilat
(b. 1939, Tel Aviv, Israel, based in Ein Hod, Israel and Dusseldorf, Germany)
Run, 1971, 3:36 minutes
Yair Garbuz
(b. 1945, Givatayim, Israel, based in Ramat Gan, Israel)
Lists, 1974, 2:10 minutes (excerpt of 20:00)
Gideon Gechtman
(b. 1942, Alexandria, Egypt - 2008)
Exposure, 1975, 3:43 minutes
Moshe Gershuni
(b.1936, Tel Aviv, Israel, based in Tel Aviv)
Crawling, 1970, 0:32 minutes
Tamar Getter
(b. 1953, Tel Aviv, Israel, based in Tel Aviv)
Golem, 1974-5, 3:36 minutes (excerpt of 6:18)
Sigalit Landau
(b. 1969, Jerusalem, Israel, based in Tel Aviv)
DeadSee, 2005, 11:39 minutes
Raffi Lavie
(b. 1937, Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine - 2007)
Geranium , 1974, 4:13 minutes (excerpt of 10:00)
Motti Mizrachi
(b. 1946, Tel Aviv, Israel, based in Tel Aviv)
Healing, 1980, 4:35 minutes (excerpt of 20:00)
Avi Mograbi
(b. 1956, Tel Aviv, Israel, based in Tel Aviv)
Mrs. Goldstein, 2006, 9:00 minutes
Michal Naaman
(b. 1951, Kvutzat Kinneret, Israel, based in Tel Aviv)
Peeling, 1974, 4:23 minutes
Joshua Neustein
(born 1940, Danzig, Poland, based in New York)
Progression Succession, 1972, 3:31 minutes, (excerpt of 20:16)
Miri Nishri
(b. 1950, Bogota, Colombia, based in Tel Aviv)
Blue Blue, 1980, 6:32 minutes (excerpt of 19:10)
Dov Or-Ner
(b. 1927, Paris, France, based in Kibbutz Hatzor, Israel)
Pharavizia, 1980, 2:23 minutes (excerpt of 6:22)
Nira Pereg
(b. 1969, Tel Aviv, Israel, based in Tel Aviv)
ABRAHAM ABRAHAM SARAH SARAH, 2012, 4:10 minutes
Buky Schwartz
(b. 1932, Jerusalem, Israel - 2009)
Videoconstructions, 1978-80, 10:01 minutes (excerpt of 29:40)
Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir
Ruti Sela (b. 1974, Jerusalem, Israel, based in Tel Aviv), Maayan Amir (b. 1978, Hadera, Israel, based in Tel Aviv)
Beyond Guilt, 2003, 10:00 minutes
Henry Shelesnyak
(b. 1938, New York, US - 1980)
Circus, 1979, 4:33 minutes (excerpt of 14:00)
Ran Slavin
(b. 1967, Jerusalem, Israel, based in Tel Aviv)
Omni Presence, 1995/1997, 3:15 minutes (excerpt of 8:39)
Micha Ullman
(b. 1939, Tel Aviv, Israel, based in Ramat Hasharon, Israel)
Place, 1975, 10:08 minutes (excerpt of 20:00)
Rona Yefman
(b. 1972, Haifa, Israel, based in New York)
Pippi L. Strongest Girl in the World! at Abu Dis, 2006/2008, 3:43 minutes
Dan Zakhem
(b. 1958, Tel Aviv, Israel - 1994)
The Babel Party: A Fictitious Political Party, 1984, 3:42 minutes
Nana and Boaz Zonshine
Nana (b. 1963, Beer Sheva, Israel, based in Clil, Israel), Boaz (b. 1962, Beer Sheva, Israel, based in Clil, Israel)
Untitled, 1996, 1:30 minutes