CACTUS
6 – 18 / 10 / 2011

Avishai Sivan presents tube-map sketches and Polaroid prints - some are straight-forward photographs – others are over/underexposed print with etchings and inscriptions.
Finally, Sivan presents Returnee a twenty-one minute film, shot in 16mm.
In Israel this title would signify an Ultra orthodox Jew who abandons his faith. Here, the protagonist flirts with the temptations of his new and undiscovered world: Flitting between movement and inertia, he becomes addicted both to sleep and restless wandering. After a period of incessant sleep, he wakes up blind.

Avishai Sivan [1977, Israel] is a filmmaker, visual artist and published author. His artwork has been presented galleries and art magazines in Israel and Europe. Sivan’s first feature film "The Wanderer" was screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2010, in the Directors’ Fortnight section. He was awarded the 2010 Ministry of Culture’s Cinema Prize in Israel. In 2007, his first documentary, seven-part video diary "The Soap Opera of Frozen Filmmaker" won Best Video Art at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2007. Earlier this year, Sivan published his first book "Musings on Filmmaking whilst Cycling through the City".