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Voiceover
by Valentina Knežević
2017, 6’35’’
Presented at lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2019
Courtesy the artist
Valentina Knežević has dedicated a series of works to studying the post-traumatic effects of a military career, collaborating with veteran centers and interviewing numerous soldiers. In Voiceover, the protagonist, Noam Carmeli, is a former professional soldier in the Israeli army who later became a dancer.
In the choreography, filmed in the halls of the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Carmeli conveys his war experience through the language of dance. The constant confrontation with death, to which a soldier is exposed, translates into a state of perpetual instability—always on the edge, under the constant risk of falling into the void.
Valentina Knežević is an artist and film director. In 2012 she received M.A. in Theater, Film and Media Studies at the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. In 2019 she completed her studies of fine arts at the Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main as a master student of Douglas Gordon. Her videowork VOICEOVER was funded through Film Board of State Hesse and VOICEOVER II through Culture Fond RheinMain and Aventis Foundation. The works reflect on the trauma and the social and psychological dynamics of the professional army through the direct soldiers testimony. Her films and other works have been shown at International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; Bangkok Biennale, Minokamo City Museum, Minokamo, Japan; Donau Festival, Krems, Austria.