On the anniversary of her son's death, Merav follows her husband Avner and arrives at a replica of her son's room, the following events change the couple's life and speak of grief and mourning in Israeli society, changed by war and genocide.
the short film uses realistic 3D animation technologies to mimic live action film, from the psychologic analysis of the characters to the detailed models being animated. This is done to give any breach of the digital a surrealist, uncanny and uneasy undertone, as is true of contemporary Israeli daily life.
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Made during my third year in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Promised Lands was my way of answering questions I had about the impact of war, genocide and dehumanisation on an onlooker's most sacred and untouched safe zones. Using rigged and animated 3D scans of myself and a donkey, I told the story of an attempted escape to a Switzerland left in my childhood, disintegrating slowly into the digital-grey nothing
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A painter, a model and a ghost live through one night in Tel Aviv. This experimental feature length film, comprised of narrative, documentary and video art footage, tries to capture an ever changing city amid political and social unrest.
Made during my third year in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design as part of the Film Diary documentary course, "Buried Words" is a love letter to my home town of Cugy in french Switzerland.
A year after my friend Lyri Milo shot footage of the village where I grew up while I was directing her overseas, we speak of our shared experiences of immigration, nostalgia and loneliness, each living in the other's land of origin.
Using archival footage of IDF raids mixed with footage filmed for the short, "The Perfect Human - IDF" is a cry for change in a militaristic pre-war Israel.
Made during my first year in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, "The Perfect Human - IDF" is an homage to Jørgen Leth's 1968 short film "The Perfect Human". Tasked by fellow student Esther Zurabova Pakovitch, I had to make a version of the film in which the perfect human in question must depict the perfect Israeli human, thus the story of a soldier fallen in battle became the center of the film.
