Museum-Cinema: Cinematic Fridays at the Museum / And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine, 2023
Following the success of the series last year, Tel Aviv Museum of Art is once again presenting Cultural Fridays!
Almost every Friday, the finest films about art and culture will be screened, preceded by a short lecture by one of the Museum’s curators. This collaboration between the Museum, the EPOS International Festival of Art and Culture Films, the Third Ear, and the Docaviv Festival allows film aficionados to enjoy captivating and thought-provoking films from around the world, as well as a visit to exhibitions of master artists from Israel and abroad.
* Admission to the film includes a visit to the exhibitions at the Museum, subject to its opening hours
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And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine, 2023 | Dir. Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck, Sweden / Denmark, 88 min., German, English, French, Swedish, Arabic. Hebrew subtitles
Introduction: Sophia Berry Lifschitz, Assistant Curator of Photography
This witty and thought-provoking documentary traces the rise of image culture as we know it. By collaging moving images of the best and worst of humanity, it offers an emblematic study of cinema and the social history it creates, and asks what are the ramifications of being exposed to the billions of images competing for our attention. A meticulous dissection of image-making based on a mind-boggling array of archival footage, this in-depth study—a 2022 SIFF New Works-in-Progress project and Sundance Special Jury Award-winning documentary—traces the 200-plus-year history of the camera, and how it has been embraced and exploited.
Film courtesy of Lev Cinema.