Ma'arive, Israeli Newspaper, May 1997.
Moshe Gershuni is 60. This definitely calls for a summing-up, maybe even for a rehearsal for departure.
Ziva Postec chose to edit her film on Gershuni, a leading Israeli painter, so that close ups on Gershuni's works are indistinguishable from close ups of the artist himself.
Everything is so designed as to generate a sort of chaos, and then project from that chaos onto Gershuni's life. In the film, Gershuni features in a one-man show on himself, and grapples with the question of memory and oblivion, a theme that has always accompanied him. Oblivion is not the absence of memory but a disturbing presence of something indescribable. To convey this feeling Postec uses Gershuni's works as flashbacks, and repeats the same scenes in different variations. Music – Gershuni's great love – is not absent either; and this time, again, he sings (and, for that matter, does it quite well).
Produced by The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema &Television and Noga Tikshoret, the film will be shown at the cinematheque.
