Oded Hirsch
There is Nothing New

ODED HIRSCH was awarded a grant for There is Nothing New, a short experimental film that aims to reconstruct the spirit of community of a Kibbutz in rural Israel. The plot is centered on an absurd scene where a group of people try to release and rescue a person whose parachute got caught on electricity lines in a desolate open field. As time goes by, people gather around the parachutist in order to pull him out of the entangled and dangerous situation. In spite of the urgent need for immediate action, they react in very cumbersome and lingering ways that only serve to highlight the absurdity of the situation. According to the filmmaker, this work will function in between the mediums of fragmented video art and narrative fiction. Hirsch feels it will be the most ambitious project of his career as an emerging experimental filmmaker.

About Oded Hirsch

ODED HIRSCH was awarded a grant for There is Nothing New, a short experimental film that aims to reconstruct the spirit of community of a Kibbutz in rural Israel. The plot is centered on an absurd scene where a group of people try to release and rescue a person whose parachute got caught on electricity lines in a desolate open field. As time goes by, people gather around the parachutist in order to pull him out of the entangled and dangerous situation. In spite of the urgent need for immediate action, they react in very cumbersome and lingering ways that only serve to highlight the absurdity of the situation. According to the filmmaker, this work will function in between the mediums of fragmented video art and narrative fiction. Hirsch feels it will be the most ambitious project of his career as an emerging experimental filmmaker.