MOZES

2024

Photographer: Chaim Yafim Barbalat
Assistant Photographer: Omer Shech
Editing, Image & Color: Michel Platnic
Costume Design: Veronika Shor
Production: Rotem Volk
Still Photographer: Nurit Agozi
Sound Recording & Soundtrack: Keren Or Biton
Singer: Kinneret Chaya Max
Coach: Zohar Zemiro
Artistic Consultation: Eran Eisenhammer
Thanks to: Shay Persil, Hila Aricha, Hadar Yosef Stadium, Liebling House – White City Center

The film was produced with the support of Mifal HaPais and the Tel Aviv City Museum.

A video work in which I am running intensely in an Olympic stadium, dressed in a jumpsuit that resembles an Olympic sprinter but also a fantastical "superhero" figure. During the prolonged run, calls are heard. My last name is called, in a voice resembling a mother calling her children or a child calling their mother. The voice is heard from afar, alongside my increasing breaths.

This work was born in war, depicting a stuck situation where a mother strives to save her children, believing she has superhuman powers but encountering a sense of helplessness when confronted with the physical reality of running. As the effort intensifies, doubt arises—are the powers she believes she has merely imagined? And in an acute situation, as we face today, could it be that she will not be able to save her children?

The work is called MOZES, my last name, which is also Moses - the messenger of God who sets out to lead his people to the Promised Land. God calls Moses twice, "Moses, Moses." The same  calls are heard in the video: "Mozes, Mozes…" They echo from the desert, hinting at the role assigned to me as a mother and testing whether I am capable of fulfilling it at all times.