“Home Captivity” is a record of me spending time with my grandma in the period of March-May 2020. Staying at my family home due to the coronavirus, I decided to register my grandmother's everyday life. By devoting much more time to her, I learned many interesting facts from her life, including memories of World War II, which marked her childhood. I have rediscovered the folklore of my hometown that my family home is so full of. In a sense, I saw with my new eyes what was overshadowed by the eternal quest for life.
Video to the "Light" assignment. Working with the camera and the basic laws of optics in the golden hour, that is
at the hour of the "festival of light", I try to create frames whose form resembles images from an old film - a reference to the eternal presence of the sacred. The most important thing in this action is the very act of connecting the camera with nature, which is dependent on sunlight,
so the use of science, a kind of "illumination" of people. Just as Chanukah is celebrated, the very fact that we are illuminated by the Sun, that we have the possibility of such and no other existence, should be celebrated. We do not pay attention to it on a daily basis, apart from "sun-wise" determination of the weather, of course. The image is created in the camera thanks to the basic laws of optics, but it is the photographer who decides how should it look like ultimately. However, I did not want to "freeze" this act with the Sun in the photographs, but to use a film for my work, because in this way I can show a certain interference process, animate reality. In my film I "salute" the sun, in a way, I bow down to it, thank it for allowing me to exist, for his unchanging presence that gives rhythm to my whole life. Until in the end I try to take control of it - to take it over just like it does - to impose my arguments. I also added sound to complete the narrative. Man is a part of nature, but it is light that seems to be something more than that, because we can't really influence it - hence the attempt to "fight it" in my film. The film is to end with the imposition of the narrative by light - a failure of a man on whom it does not depend, but can only coexist - the man intervenes only in a small particle of light given to them, they are a drop in the ocean of light.
Video to the "Light" assignment. Working with the camera and the basic laws of optics in the golden hour, that is
at the hour of the "festival of light", I try to create frames whose form resembles images from an old film - a reference to the eternal presence of the sacred. The most important thing in this action is the very act of connecting the camera with nature, which is dependent on sunlight,
so the use of science, a kind of "illumination" of people. Just as Chanukah is celebrated, the very fact that we are illuminated by the Sun, that we have the possibility of such and no other existence, should be celebrated. We do not pay attention to it on a daily basis, apart from "sun-wise" determination of the weather, of course. The image is created in the camera thanks to the basic laws of optics, but it is the photographer who decides how should it look like ultimately. However, I did not want to "freeze" this act with the Sun in the photographs, but to use a film for my work, because in this way I can show a certain interference process, animate reality. In my film I "salute" the sun, in a way, I bow down to it, thank it for allowing me to exist, for his unchanging presence that gives rhythm to my whole life. Until in the end I try to take control of it - to take it over just like it does - to impose my arguments. I also added sound to complete the narrative. Man is a part of nature, but it is light that seems to be something more than that, because we can't really influence it - hence the attempt to "fight it" in my film. The film is to end with the imposition of the narrative by light - a failure of a man on whom it does not depend, but can only coexist - the man intervenes only in a small particle of light given to them, they are a drop in the ocean of light.
