The Sala-Manca group will present a free screening of ‘The Story of Batya M’ in the Shapira Garden in the Tel Aviv Shapira neighborhood at sunset, around 20:00. The screening is part of the Reels on Wheels mobile cinema project that aims to make viewing cinema and video a public, community event accessible to all, bringing free screenings to neighborhoods throughout Israel.
The project will work with each neighborhood individually, creating a flexible program that may include screenings of film and video by local artists and additional activities. The participating film makers and artists are: Avigail Sperber, Avishai Sivan, Oron Cohen, Uri Katzenstein, Eyal Halfon, Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel, Alon Alsheich, Alex and Ziad Bakri, Asaf Saban, Basel Tannus, Yael Bartana, Gur Bentwich, David Noy, Daniel Sivan, Hadasa Goldvicht, Luna Matar, Max Epstein, Firas Khoury, Home:Site Project, Shadi Sarour, Shahar Marcus, Tamar Shippony, sala-manca group, heb2.tv
‘The Story of Batya M’ is an audio-visual performance that combines live performance with video in a surprising and subversive way. From the Sala-manca website:
Drive-in cinema in a parking lot by the sea. An Argentinean soap opera is projected on the screen. On the stage, the two leading actors dub the scenes. The language they use changes, the translation becomes dubious, the design of the subtitles and the conventions of the genre are also transformed. The outcome is the last and only episode of a soap opera that exists on the border between mass television culture and avant-garde performance.
This screening is with the collaboration of the Hotline for Immigrant Workers and the Scouts, Shapira Neighborhood, TLV. The show is suitable for Spanish, English or Hebrew speakers.
Reels on Wheels is a project of Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art and Media Center, made possible by the Ostrovsky Family Fund. Concept and curator: Thalia Hoffman, production: Mamuta & Thalia Hoffman.
