My Neighbours
A Short Documentary about the Abu Tur neighborhood in Jerusalem
2016
Neighbours/ Experiment #3
Sadiqi/ Experiment #4
Video/Sound installation
05:54 min.
A video/sound installation which examines, via documentary and directed footage, the neighbourhood in which I grew up, the same neighbourhood in which I am raising my daughter, by means of playfulness.
The point of view is sometimes my own – in an attempt to reconnect with the place where I grew up – and sometimes hers. The children from Abu-Tur village are also present, looking at us. A connection is made while playing, with rules of its own.
3 Girls on a Beam
A Video Dance for three girls
2016
The beam gives a sense of elevation, while the height enables things which are impossible to do while on the ground. However the height also gives a sense of uncertainty, and when three characters are walking on a beam, sharing a crowded space, those frequent might lead to falling. The body is in an ever-present physical conflict, as it must move aside to give place for someone else. Three characters in different ages are looking to fly away or at least some grip in vacant space. At the very least it enables to hold one another in different states of merging and separation.
Swimming in the Sky
2014
(00:11:49)
Director: Shelly Renan Kuris
Choreography: Mai Aylon, Shelly Renan-Kuris
Editor: Shelly Renan-Kuris
Music/Sound Design: Yaniv Kuris
Gush Helka/גוש חלקה
A Video/Sound/Text installation
2011
However, these two definitions do not reveal the true meaning of a ‘Home’: People, with the multitude of time-dependent details, big and small, which compose them when they are alive, and what makes them memories, time-dependent as well, when they are gone – perhaps because they moved to somewhere else, or perhaps because they are no longer alive.
‘Gush Helka’ is a Sound/Video installation incorporating text written using the Automatic Writing technique.
It is a minimalist piece, where the three characters are involved in conversation with one another, a conversation whose essence changes with time.
Diptych
Video-dance project, exhibited in Klaipeda
January 2007
‘Diptych’:
A Video-Dance Installation
A video comprised of two projections
‘Diptych’ seeks to examine and explore various aspects involving The Human Body, Movement and Eroticism. I find it challenging to examine personal issues, feminism and intimacy, and to test them in different settings.
Focusing on the choreography designed for the camera and the choreography designed for the dancer, my belief is that body and camera can unite in motion and complement one another.
In a routine space, playtime creates a world – a new world where physical laws change and new laws, which could only exist in this space, are created, particularly in intermediate spaces.
Shelly’s intention in this video, shot in the house where she grew up, was to document an ordinary place as she had experienced it as a child, but also from a mature, female retrospective: The older persona stubbornly tries to recreate a childhood experience, but this experience is charged with erotic dynamics that stimulate a sense of danger. The event takes place in two different and parallel dimensions. Will they ever meet?
The world of motion in which the character exists is a world of transitions between human, animal-like, and cosmic movements. The encounter between the character, whose human identity becomes blurred, and the man-made architecture, gives a special perspective to human existence.
Directing/editing by Shelly Renan-Kuris
Photography by Shelly Renan-Kuris and Limor Yitzhak
Choreography by Lianne Yaffe
Dancer – Lianne Yaffe
Soundtrack – Yaniv Kuris
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