Spielberg?s List2003 The two-channel video projection Spielberg?s List (2003) is based on a journey to Krakow. Fast filmed the remnants of the set of the concentration camp that was built for Steven Spielberg?s Schindler?s List (1993) as well as the adjacent ruins of the real camp, and other sites and inhabitants of the region. It is not always clear if the elderly people in the video are talking about the real camp or about working as an extra on the film set, or which of the two ?camps? we see. Spielberg?s List is no moralizing sermon on the evils of Hollywood, but in an understated way it raises questions about the fetishist lure of Spielberg?s images and about the rhetorical pathos of his narrative.
Biography
Omer Fast
(Jerusalem, Israel, 1972)
Omer Fast lives in New York and Berlin.
He uses his films to explore the various possibilities offered by the cinematic medium: possibilities of expressing emotions, of confronting personal stories with public concerns, of concentrating on individuals or integrating their environments in a broader historical context. The borders of the documentary film genre begin to melt when Omer Fast links and manipulates the collective imagery and the individual unconscious on the same layer of his medium.
