For years, the German artist Volker Gerling has been taking long walks, meeting and portraying the people he meets along the way. All in the pursuit of personal stories that can teach us something bigger about life, about us, about the world.

In honour of the 2024 Israel Festival, Gerling visited Israel, touring the country and meeting dozens of locals, all connected in one way or another to October 7th.
He photographed some of the people he met on his analog camera, and later developed the photographs and manually bound them into a flipbook – a small booklet that can be flipped through quickly. On stage Gerling leafs through the flipbooks underneath a video camera that projects the pictures onto a large screen. Flipbooks become flipbook cinema. Animation – the analog version. Gerling combines his compassionate gaze, sensitivity and unique humor into an endearing stage performance that tells a story through photographs, allowing for an outside perspective into our most fragile moments.

The artist would like to thank all the people he met on his trip to Israel who shared their stories and feelings with him. He greatly appreciates their openness and honesty.

  • * The show is in English.

 

 

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