Victory of the Rising Sun ניצחון השמש העולה

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Victory of the Rising Sun
Short experimental film

(10 min)

Daniella Meroz’s video confronts two opposing bodily ideals as epitomized in two aestheticized spectacles staged in Germany: Oskar Schlemer’s Triadic Ballet from 1922, and Olympia, the 1938 film by Leni Riefenstahl, a documentation of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. A former actress, Riefenstahl went on to become the Third Reich’s emblematic filmmaker. In Olympia she harnessed her innovative cinematic talents toward praising the well-proportioned bodies of athletes – a “new body” in the mould of Nazi ideology; a body meant to counter an equally new – albeit grotesquely exaggerated – body that figured in the modernist art of the Bauhaus school. Schlemer’s bodies are mechanical figures, specimens adapted to a new society. Setting her video in a stadium, Meroz saddles her performers in outsized geometrical extensions that, rather impeding movement, recall Schlemer’s visual vocabulary but also the bouncy props used in reality TV. Performing synchronized drills, races or fights, performers are captured from bellow, an angle that – as with Riefenstahl – aggrandizes the body. However, Meroz allows for direct sunlight to highlight every minor imperfection, placing the scene at the threshold of success and failure, the real and ideal. text by: Sally Heftel

Credits

Creator and Director- Daniella Meroz
DOP- Misha Kaminsky
Music and sound design- Tamuz Dekel
Camera Assistant- Arman Sarkisov
Grip- Mohammed Kahil
Grip assistant- Efi Eisenberg
Production Assistants -Danny Zilberg, itamar
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Producer- Daniella Meroz
Producer on set- Idan Bitton
Costume Design- Daniella Meroz
Costume Creating- Zion Avramov
Story Board Artist - Mor Messeri
Makeup Artist- Esti Nufusi Romano
Art Assistants - Ben Zion Port, Shirley Naaman

Cast
Reches Itzhaki, Tama Castel, Dorin Amitzur Dorin Amitzur, Chen Steiner, Naama Shmueli Eden Kalif , Idan Helzer, Idan Bitton ,May Reznikov, Inbar Tanzer, Gili Inglis, Avigail Shklovsky

Editing by- Daniella Meroz
Colorist -Aliya Marcus
Graphic Design- Anat Gutberg
After Effects- Ofek Shemer

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