Artport is excited to invite you to online film screenings and conversations with local and intentional video artists. The screenings are part of Art/Doc – Artist Film Festival (artistic director: Gilad Reich), which will be held at Artport in the coming months. The festival will present video works created by artists who operate on the line between art and cinema, searching for new visual languages in order to represent, touch and intervene with aspects of reality.

The first screening is the film “Watching the Pain of Others” (2019, 31 min) by French artist Chloé Galibert-Laîné. Galibert-Laîné’s work traces another work: Penny Lane’s documentary “The Pain of Others”, which deals with an illness that is not clear at all if it exists. This is a personal, intimate video diary created by the artist in her own room while diving into YouTube videos and online interviews she made. By redefinition of the words ‘illness’, ‘virality’ and ’empathy’, the artist, finding herself plunging into a world of cyber conspiracies, YouTubers, rumors and fabrications. The film was produced as part of the artist’s doctoral research project about “Netnographic Cinema.” It was selected by Sight and Sound magazine as one of the Best Video Essays of 2018.

Screening: Saturday, Apr 11th 2020, the film “Watching the Pain of Others” will be available for online viewing between 8 pm to 9 pm (Israel Time).
Duration: 31 min
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owrhy73jSXc...