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ROEE ROSEN’s paintings, films, and writings have become known for their historical and theological consciousness, novelistic imagination, and psychological ambition. His work addresses the representation of history and the politics of identity, often exploring the tension between trauma, horror, humor, and truth. Born in Israel in 1963, he received degrees in visual art from the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College, both in New York. He now lives in Israel, where he teaches art and art history at Bezalel Academy of Art and at Beit Berl College. His exhibitions at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, are often controversial, as in 1997, when Rosen was aggressively attacked by Israeli politicians while winning critical praise for its new approach to the representation of the memory of the Holocaust in LIVE AND DIE AS EVA BRAUN.
- Cinema XXI Award for Short and Medium Film Special Mention - Rome International Film Festival 2013
- Rotterdam International Film Festival 2014
- FID Marseille International Film Festival 2014
A series of mockumentary historical jokes, THE BURIED ALIVE VIDEOS returns to a type of characters dear to visual artist Roee Rosen, that of people displaced from culture and history. This makeshift group of cultural revolutionaries, or cultural zombies as they call themselves, deconstructs Russian iconic figures and exposes them as paper cardboard masks, while also attacking sexual politics and sexual taboos from a historical point of view. Here parody distils reality, and fiction becomes the magnifying glass to actual faults. With a postmodernist sensibility, in The Buried Alive Videos the future is in the past, and the grand narrative is proven to be but fictional constructs. The kidnappings of renowned artists and turning them into the group’s spokespersons function as a passive call to arms in debunking myths. If the artists have slacked behind and allowed the grand narrative to take centre-stage, it’s up to the culturally and artistically undead to revive that healthy dose of disbelief and scepticism. (Diana Mereoiu, BIEFF)