Maya Zack

CONCRETE AND CEMENT 1: PREPARATIONS FOR THE RESEMBLING PEOPLE CEREMONY 2003
a collaboration with Raya Bruckenthal
Video with sound. Duration: 11 min. Language: no words. Screening Formats: DVD, Mini DV.

Concrete and Cement 1: Preparations for the Resembling People ceremony and Concrete and Cement 2: Door To Door are part a larger ongoing project under the title Concrete and Cement which includes two videos, sculptures and installations.
The project as a whole deals metaphorically with the Zionistic project as a modern project, with its ethos and symbols and with Tel Aviv, as “the first Hebrew city”.
Central images in the project are those of concrete and the cement, as well as casted objects and sculptures that look as fossils from the ‘Concrete Era’, an invented archeological era suggested by the project, and characterized by concrete and cement, as emblematic modernist materials.
the phrase “Concrete and Cement” is drawn from a line in a poem by famous Hebrew-zionist poet Nathan Alterman. the poem personifies the country and says with praise: ‘we shall dress you up in a dress of concrete and cement’.

Cast and Crew
Directors, script, design, production: Maya Zack, Raya Bruckenthal / Actors: Friedel Stern, Chava Lerman, Maya Lerman, Tahel Eliashiv, Ma’ayan Erez, Edika Gruenenfelder, Alex Melichson, Sergio Chong Alvaresh / Camera & Lighting: Maya Zack, Raya Bruckenthal, Stanislav Levor / Editing: Shalom Hager, Maya Zack, Raya Bruckenthal

Production Support and Sponsors:
CCA Tel Aviv

Festivals and Screenings
2003 Video zone video art festival, Tel Aviv

Exhibitions
2004 Concrete and Cement, Noga gallery Tel Aviv
2005 Ex-territory, Hagaleria Ha’ironit, Rehovot, Israel
curators: Yehudit Matzkel, Ora Kraus
2008 Concrete and Cement: No Way Back, Solo exhibition,
Kibutz Be’eri gallery