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Maya Zack

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    • Mother Economy
    • Spoke, Spoke, Was, Was
    • Broken Horizons
    • Living Room
    • The Shabbat Room
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    • Decryption installation
    • video decryption
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Black and White Rule

Black & White Rule | a short film by Maya Zack 2011 (full version: 17:45 min.) Black & White Rule video deals with the human attempt to impose order and form onto reality through training and discipline procedures. On an over-sized chess-board two poodle dogs submit to the orders of their trainer while through the use of a Camera-Obscura their actions are being monitored and registered by a clerk in her office located along side the chess-board. At a certain moment the orderly routine is disrupted... Black & White Rule is a meticulously designed visual experience and a homage to the art of drawing. Details Runtime: 17 min. | Production year: 2011 | Country: Israel | Laguage: no words Original Format: 4K | Screening Formats: Hd cam, Digi Beta, Beta SP DVD, Mini DV. Cast and Crew Director, Script: Maya Zack / Production: Dana Kolton / Actors: Lana Ettinger, Dmitry Paley / Camera: Stanislav Levor / Lighting: Daniel Bar, Danil Burobin / Original music: Ophir Leibovitch / Soundtrack design & mix: Gilad Leshem D.B. Sound studios / compositing: Stanislav Levor, Roei Tsoref / color correction: Stanislav Levor / Production design and costumes: Maya Zack Production Support and Sponsors: The New Foundation for Film and Television / Ministry of Science, Culture & Sport - The Israeli Film Council / Galerie Natalie Seroussi Paris.

Synopsis
Black and White Rule video deals with the human attempt to impose order and form onto reality through training and discipline procedures.
On an over-sized chess-board two poodle dogs submit to the orders of their trainer while through the use of a Camera-Obscura their actions are
being monitored and registered by a clerk in her office located along side the chess-board. at a certain moment the orderly routine is disrupted...
Black and White Rule is a meticulously designed visual experience and a homage to the art of drawing.

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