Amir Fattal Collection
Germany, 2005-7, 49 min.

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Screening Schedule: 28.6, 12:30

One of the most promising video art, exhibition and photography artists to come from Israel in recent years. Born in Tel Aviv in 1978, living abroad for 8 years now. Amir Fattal studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and Absolventen Bildende Kunst in Berlin. Since 2006 his works have been displayed in galleries, museums and festivals in London, K?ln, Leipzig and Berlin. They describe intimate situations, of which some can be disturbing, seeing how they create eroticism and solitude at the same time. Amir explores one person's reflection in another, as a technical element, but also as emotional and artistic. Through alterations of light he succeeds in changing viewpoints to examine not only his own desires, but also the desires of the objects starring in his films, causing the viewers to examine themselves.

Private Dancer
Berlin, 2005, 5 min.
Filmed at a BDSM club in Berlin. J?rgen, one of the club members, stands in front of Amir's camera, touching himself sensually, with an expression of terror on his face. He dances to the sound of Tina Turner's Private Dancer. The disturbing situation gives birth to eroticism through the camera.

Last Dance
Berlin, 2005, 6 min.
One in front of the other, one next to the other, documenting each other, reflected in each other, examining each other, faceless, exposed, together but totally alone, touching themselves, the camera is the only thing that connects them, loneliness, eroticism, and one camera documenting it all.

Changed Position
Berlin, 2006, 17 min.
Amir documents a series of encounters with six men he met through the Internet. He arrives at their apartment, ties a scarf over his eyes and puts a camera on his head. He does not see a thing. The men hold the camera and document Amir with it. From these extreme situations emerge details from the past of those men, as well as truths about Amir which could probably only be released by the complex situation he threw himself into.

Projection
Berlin, 2007, 18 min.
This surprising and unique film was filmed in 15 different apartments with 15 different men. The lighting usually used by the photographer and the painter as passive elements becomes active. The lighting has a life of its own here, flickering and choosing the images it wants to expose to the viewers.

Soft Porn
Berlin, 2007, 3 min.
Originally a 15-minutes dialog-free porn film with two actors, which with the help of flickering lights was dismantled by the director to 3 minutes, the purpose being – to expose the desire of the man behind the camera rather than of those in front of it.