Hallucinatory Cinema and Dialogical Notions of History

For Spike’s 4th artist talk at Soho House Berlin, Dani Gal presented clips from his filmography, including a screening of his thirty-minute film Three Works For Piano (2020), to address how he uses re-staging to complicate given histories and unpack his motives to challenge the past.

Tuesday, 21 February 2023 at 7pm
Soho House, 10119 Berlin

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DANI GAL (*1975, Jerusalem) is an artist and filmmaker. By subtly manipulating the traces of historical events and reconstructing what has gone unrecorded, Gal questions claims about the mediated “truth” of cultural memory and reveals how such knowledge shapes our ideas about the present. His films have been shown at the Venice Biennale and documenta, as well as renowned institutions like the Jewish Museum New York, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, and Centre Pompidou. He lives in Berlin.