FINE 2025

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FINE

2025 Video (4:47 minutes)

The video work “FINE was created in the midst of wartime turmoil. An ordinary family meal turns into choreography of collapse and survival. Family ritual dissolves into wild, out of control performance, theatrical disaster. Shock at unforeseen events mingles with attempts to maintain normalcy as the household is plunged into tragedy. “FINE” gives artistic expression to grim reality in an attempt to locate hope and togetherness in chaos.

Artist Statement

Since October 7^th, while the Middle East is in crisis, we struggle to survive as the world we knew collapses around us, grasping desperately at whatever we have – family, friends, everyday routines and rituals. “FINE” presents a moment in time when we are still reeling with shock, and turns it into a choreography of survival amid chaos. The project originated in current tragic reality ,though I believe it goes beyond the local, and connects with such universal themes as family, belonging and survival. The moment in time is both isolated and drawn out: viewers linger over catastrophe with morbid enjoyment, as in reality TV, while the elusive, fleeting moment itself can never be captured and seems to occupy the focus of the frame and of our gaze.

Meirav Heiman’s Film

Co-Director: Shabtai Yitzhak-Eden

Curator: Sabrina Cegla

Actors: Adi Teper, Yaniv Teper, Or Teper, Ella Teper

Chief Cinematographer: Benny Mali

Cinematographers: Alon Balas, Liat Lerner, Doron Peled, Gil Lupo

Art Director: Caroline Attoun

Art Team: Estina Lavy, Dina Valershtein, Malvina Pollack, Noa Harel

Gaffer: Shuki Paz

Producer: Olivia Levi Hadid

Best Boy Yaron Yefet

Grip: Ofer Almog