The artists refer to "Ketem Leida" as “documentary video-art.”
This unique category that consciously mixes the everyday with art, blurring fact with (possible) fiction,
does
a similar action to that of the work: both alienate that which became canny, possibly too familiar – as Freud’s famous reading
of the uncanny goes.
Horodi and Kammerer, an Israeli-German couple , have produced a 36 minutes video, which draws a parallel
between the problematic dynamics of memory and forgetting in both Germany and Israel.
Employing a double-screen on which images from the two countries are presented simultaneously allows the viewers
to learn about the similar treatment, which can also be referred to as collective amnesia,
when it comes to the existence of the past’s remnants amongst the everyday.
[ from: Romi Mikulinsky: "Ruins, History and Paradoxical Memory", Toronto, 2006 ]
Sharon Horodi & Cheb M. Kammerer | Ketem Leida - Mutterfleck | Documentary Video Art | 2005 | 36:00 min | Hebrew & German | English Subtitles
Public screenings | Dec05: Cinematheque Tel Aviv | April 06: Cinematheque Jerusalem | Nov06: Red Lounge Jerusalem
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