Complex

9min, 3:4 DV-PAL, 2008.

Created by: Daniel Mann, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat

On A winter night, at an open parking lot in Tel Aviv, seven men who served together in the Israeli army meet again. The reunion of the group brings back the atmosphere they know so well from three years of army service in the special forces.
On the parking lot surface an outline of a fictional house is sketched and the ex-soldiers will reenact the military maneuver of taking over a civilian house. Their weapons are replaced by a paper roll and the zone of combat by an open space in Tel Aviv.
During their military service the soldiers were trained to perform this maneuver automatically. In the new context the action of the “take-over” is extracted from its original context becoming a performance.

Screenings:

• Betting On Shorts, London, Paris, Berlin, Athens, Poznan, Rostov-on-Don, Maribor, Novi Sad, Barcelona, Istanbul, Wiesbaden, Bucharest, Thessaloniki and Stockholm, Nov 2009.
• IDFA 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Nov 2008.
• Courtisane festival for film, video and video art, Ghent, Belgium, Apr 2009.
• Kurz Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany, Jun 2009.
• Media City. Windsor Ontario Canada, May 2009.
• Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Feb 2010.
• Kunstfilmtag, Düsseldorf, Germany, Nov 2010.
• Videocracy, Pécs, Hungary, Nov 2011.
• Jewish Museum, Brussels, Belgium, Mar 2012.

• Part of a video installation together with Stragedy:

• A Generation exhibition (curated by Avi Feldman), Petah-Tikva Museum of Art, Israel, Mar-June 2010.
• MNF, Brussels, Belgium, Mar 2012.