Invert
Title
Invert
Synopsis
The 35mm film portrays a day in an inverted world where the inanimate and the human rely on logic of complementary colors and an inversion of light and shadow. The result seen on film—on the celluloid—is a “positive” image resulting from the manual inversion process. Invert, the figure of the artist in color reversal, attempts to teach his silent parrot to speak. The words, names of the objects appearing in the film, are said in Hebrew, spoken backwards.
Credits
Directed, Edited and Performed by Ben Hagari
With Dani Hagari as the Double and Yossi Mar-Chaim as the Pianist
Cinematography: Avner Shahaf
Assistant Director: Gal Katzir
Make up artist: Sharon Kedem
Costumes and props: Maya Silman
Lighting: Nir Rachmin
Sound: Dani Shitrit
Still photography: Studio Yoram Aschheim, Nimrod Gnishar
Sound mix: DB Studios, Tel Aviv
Cine postproduction: Len Thornton, Soho Film Lab, London
Musical adaptation and performance: Yossi Mar-Chaim , after Johann Sebastian Bach, Arte Fuga – Contrapunctus Inversus XIII
Filmed at the Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv
Appearances
February 17 - April 2, 2011
Invert
Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
October 12, 2012 - January 13, 2013
Artists’ Film International
Whitechapel Gallery, London
November 2, 2011 - December 30, 2015
The Museum Presents Itself: Israeli Art from the Museum Collection
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Installation view, KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
