A first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, featuring a documentary disassembled into elements, reconstituted into a multi-channel video installation, in which viewers move freely in the gallery space.
In this case, the father of journalistic photography in Israel – the artist Micha Bar-Am – opened his archive, which covers 50 years of activity, to the award-winning filmmaker Ran Tal. The intergenerational encounter spawned a documentary, which is made entirely of still photographs that appear one after the other, against the background of Tal’s exciting conversations with Micha and Orna Bar-Am.
The archive of Micha Bar-Am, the founder of the photography department at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, covers almost all of the country’s years – for its beautiful and dark hours. From this vast archive, in which many of the images are deeply etched in the Israeli collective memory, Ran Tal created a documentary film, which is nothing more than a series of still photographs and a soundtrack of an ongoing conversation with Micha and his family.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art – King Saul 27, Tel Aviv
(Due to the nature of the work – the number of visitors to the exhibition is limited,
And the entrance to the exhibition is possible every eight minutes)
Closing: December 17th