'Who Watches The Watchmen?'

A film about Art and Oppression

 

BY Jack Faber

 

Producer
Claudia Levin (Cala)

 

 

 

 

 

 

'A work created in darkly hide outs'

(The charge sheet)

'Underground film born in sin'

(Tel Aviv museum)

 

 

'Who Watches The Watchmen?'

Synopsis

The documentary investigates the ways art influences thinking patterns, uses for political needs, create fashions and involved in popular culture. This massive power is held and stored by an established elitistic minority, although art deals since the dawn of humanity in the transference of power - from reality to the screen, from dreams to matter, from the individual to the public ground, from the persons of authority to the vast audience. Opposite to this establishment the film will represent the protest of guerilla, graffiti and street art, and examine its importance and means of expression in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and societies.

The film will look through the eyes of main figures and opinion leaders (artists, lawyers, journalists, officials, PR persons, activists, critics and dealers) in the  Israeli-Palestinian culture and mass media, will deal with their relations, and will ask the questions -  when does art become a crime? What is the role of art in commercial culture? Does it functions as a control mechanism in the society? Who control this industry? What the importance of free speech in a conflict area? How to deal with an easy trigger censure system? How all's this effect the life outside the art field?

From the intense drama of guerilla art's struggle against mainstream conservatism, and the personal stories of those stand in its front, different cinematic themes will be tested: the documentary who becomes part of his observation object, the modern western in which few fights a corrupted establishment, a war film where legal documents replace bullets and news articles equivalent to carpet bombings, a social movie about an absurd existence in an aggressive destructive society, a political film about conspiracies, treats and suppression. A poetic piece about a collision with the core of the system.
This is journey to the heart of darkness of Israeli culture, which reveals the hidden mechanisms in this society, the place that turns a mean of expression to an instrument of oppression.