New York Jewish Film Festival Presents | Artist Focus: Keren Cytter

New York Jewish Film Festival Presents
Artist Focus: Keren Cytter

The Israeli artist Keren Cytter uses visual media in strikingly original ways to build powerful and affecting narratives out of skewed scenes of everyday life. Cytter’s films, video installations and drawings represent social realities through experimental modes of storytelling characterized by a non-linear, cyclical logic and multiple layers of images: conversation, monologue and narration systematically composed to undermine linguistic conventions and traditional interpretation schemata. Recalling amateur home movies and video diaries, these montages of impressions, memories and imaginings are poetic and self-referential in composition, thought-provoking and inescapably engrossing.

We present five of Cytter’s recent works followed by discussion between the artist and Jens Hoffmann, Curator for Special Programs, New York Jewish Film Festival and Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs, the Jewish Museum.

Scheuer Auditorium











When: Mon., Apr. 20, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Where: The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave.
212-423-3200
Price: Free with RSVP
Buy tickets/get more info now
See other events in these categories:

New York Jewish Film Festival Presents
Artist Focus: Keren Cytter

The Israeli artist Keren Cytter uses visual media in strikingly original ways to build powerful and affecting narratives out of skewed scenes of everyday life. Cytter’s films, video installations and drawings represent social realities through experimental modes of storytelling characterized by a non-linear, cyclical logic and multiple layers of images: conversation, monologue and narration systematically composed to undermine linguistic conventions and traditional interpretation schemata. Recalling amateur home movies and video diaries, these montages of impressions, memories and imaginings are poetic and self-referential in composition, thought-provoking and inescapably engrossing.

We present five of Cytter’s recent works followed by discussion between the artist and Jens Hoffmann, Curator for Special Programs, New York Jewish Film Festival and Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs, the Jewish Museum.

Scheuer Auditorium

Buy tickets/get more info now