The Men Behind the Wall

Berlinale Shorts 2018

Tinder. Woman seeks men. Man seeks women. Everything could be so simple if she weren’t in Israel and the guys nearby that the app suggests in search mode weren’t in the West Bank. Israeli filmmaker Ines Moldavsky makes herself the subject of her investigation. In her work The Men Behind the Wall she crosses these and other boundaries in order to enter into conversation nonetheless. Some of the men show themselves, others read poems aloud – time and again the talk comes back to their needs, their lust, the possibility of sharing that lust. The filmmaker’s aesthetic strategy is that of a double exposure in her search – she experiences the personally unfamiliar physical space in Palestine as well. The conversations oscillate between virtual phone calls and concrete encounters. The artist stands provocatively at an intersection in downtown Ramallah, dressed in a red spaghetti strap dress, outstretched arms balancing a microphone boom in the air. Violence resonates – in the search for a violation of boundaries.
Maike Mia Höhne

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by Ines Moldavsky
with Ines Moldavsky, Izzeldin Naqshband, Mazin Misleh, AbadyPhy T. Hijaji, Ahmad Asmar Israel 2018 English, Hebrew, Arabic 28’ Colour World premiere | Documentary form

With

Ines Moldavsky
Izzeldin Naqshband
Mazin Misleh
AbadyPhy T. Hijaji
Ahmad Asmar

Crew

Written and Directed by	Ines Moldavsky
Cinematography	Silke Schönfeld
Editing	Ines Moldavsky
Sound Design	Keren Or Bitton
Producer	Ines Moldavsky

Produced by

Ines Moldavsky

Photos

Ines Moldavsky

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1990, she currently lives and works as a video artist, experimental and documentary filmmaker in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her previous film Cold Facts screened at film festivals around the world.

Filmography (short films)

2012 Here I was Dumped 2014 Thirty Plus 2015 Midnight 2016 Cold Facts 2017 The Men Behind the Wall

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018