Yaacov Dorchin: It’s All Angels

Director: Mira Bauer | Israel, 1997 | 77 minutes | Hebrew
Wednesday | 24.4
2 Cinematheque TLV | 18:00

A convoy of trucks transports huge metal sculptures from the steel factories of Kiryat HaPlada in Acre to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, where they will be placed outside the building (they’re too big to fit inside) in an exhibition the artist Yaacov Dorchin titled “Blocked Well.” The year is 1995, and this is the culmination of a creative process that director Mira Bauer followed for months. Dorchin created the sculptures from huge blocks of molten steel and found materials, and he used enormous cranes to position the huge, heavy works. When everything is ready, just before the opening of the exhibition, we see him taking stock, sometimes with enigmatic sentences like: “I think the exhibition is beautiful. I like it, and at the same time I feel bad for it.” Or “Anything of value is outdated.” Dorchin, the artist, has other loves and preoccupations that are revealed in the film: among them, studying insects and jazz music.

Producer: Mira Bauer | Cinematography: Mira Bauer and Shalom Rufeisen | Editor: Anat Kirchuk |

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