Film fragments, video works and moving-image diaries
Moving images, visual diaries and cinematic fragments exploring memory, masculinity, desire, exile, time and the unstable border between stillness and motion.
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Kobi Israel's moving-image work extends the photographic archive into time. Bodies, streets, landscapes, voices and remembered encounters become cinematic fragments, suspended between documentary, autobiography, performance and dream.
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Twelve moving-image projects. Years, durations, formats and screening status to be confirmed by the artist.
A moving-image investigation into masculinity, militarism, desire, memory and the charged space between observation and longing.
View WorkAn assemblage of soldiers, strangers, cities and lovers — the unstable theatre of remembered appearance set in motion.
View WorkA diaristic project where photographs become rhythm, voice, light and time.
View WorkShort cinematic fragments collected from daily life, intimacy and ordinary light.
View WorkThree crossings between landscape, biography and the porous edges of a remembered self.
View WorkBrief moving-image encounters: men watched, filmed and remembered between cities.
View WorkA moving archive in which childhood, exile and recollection are continually re-read on screen.
View WorkPrivate film and video archive: family footage, marginal recordings, working notes.
View WorkSound, voice and music explorations developed alongside the moving-image archive.
View WorkShort experimental sequences testing rhythm, repetition, montage and silence.
View WorkMoving-image notes from journeys — Cuba, Paris, London and points between.
View WorkFilm and moving-image projects currently in development. Synopses to be confirmed by the artist.
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A moving-image and photographic investigation into masculinity, militarism, homoerotic codes, desire, memory and the tension between observation and longing.
“The moving-image works should be understood as visual diaries rather than conventional films. They gather fragments of travel, memory, body, voice, silence, city, landscape and desire into a cinematic archive of lived experience.”
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A clear, serious pathway for curators, festivals, galleries, museums, universities and cultural programmers interested in the moving-image work. Screening copies, technical specifications and press materials available on request.
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The moving-image work is not separate from the photography. They belong to the same artistic archive.
How a photographed gesture, gaze or street becomes a sequence in time.
How remembered images return as rhythm, repetition and montage.
How the working archive finds voice through sound, narration and music.
Sound and music are part of the moving-image archive: a continuing exploration of voice, silence and rhythm in dialogue with the image.
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Short, unfinished and diary-like video fragments. All durations, formats and status to be confirmed by the artist.
Streets, traffic, strangers and the breath of urban time.
The photographed body in motion — gesture, skin, breath.
Interiors as theatre of the self: hotel rooms, studios, kitchens.
Windows, platforms, runways — the texture of moving through.
Fragments returning out of order, in their own light.
Departure, return and the geography of leaving, set in motion.
Inherited gestures, archival film, voices remembered.
Looking, longing, withholding — the rhythm of attention.
Held breath, dropped sound, the image alone.
Cities and bodies under low light — the night as another country.