Fracture | Keren Kraizer

The Israeli dancer Keren Kraizer returns to her country and is confronted with its divided society. What does it mean to be an Israeli artist today? What is possible to share with the society? When do acts of resistance impose themselves and transform one’s “normal” life? A territory haunted by decades of violence – but also decades of efforts toward cohabitation and peace – seems to be irreversibly broken. Kraizer decides to live this “fracture” and explore what kind of hope can withstand the irreversibility of divisions among people. In doing so, she is obliged to face History. The personal voice she chooses in order to deal with these huge topics emerges as a necessary way to bypass the narrowness of ideologies and find motivation for political commitment. Thus, the intimacy of the filmic discourse becomes a form of resistance.

In a moment of polarised and impoverished debate, Fracture is lifts the veil on political resistance in Israel, offering a more nuanced, on-the-ground understanding. This subtle perspective does not function as a tool to water down the urgency of taking a clear stance, but rather to vehemently speak out against the woven, systematic human right violations of a delirious government, the ongoing erasure of Palestinian lives, and the internal oppression of Isreali society. As Kraizer stresses in our meeting in Nyon, the fact that the situation is complex does not mean that we are allowed to withdraw from it, but that we should definitely engage with it at its core.