The place to start out: Black Tape (2014) stands out for its intelligent and seductive use of tango to play off that previous line, “It takes two to tango”. It additionally takes two to occupy: the occupier and the occupied; the sufferer and victimizer; the armed and the unarmed.
What to observe subsequent: The Coronary heart of Amos Klein (2008) makes use of the lifetime of a one-armed man straddling life and dying to look at the violence, corruption, and turmoil in latest Israeli historical past. Instructed utilizing a mixture of paint, drawings, and reside motion, the Kranots have created not a lot a movie of forgiving, however one which makes an attempt to grasp what makes individuals who they’re and what they do.
Different key works: Nothing Occurs (2016), Hole Land (2013), The Hangman at Dwelling (2021)
Influences: William Kentridge, Laurie Andersen, Ursula Ok. LeGuin, Robert Wyatt
Says: “A lot of the movies we work fully collectively, as with Hole Land – we wrote the script collectively, we directed the movie collectively, we did the storyboard collectively. However after we completed the storyboard Uri did the precise layouts; we designed the characters collectively however I painted them – we actually shared the work between us, and we additionally share our lives. I believe at this time we don’t know who animated what, which is true about our earlier movies as nicely. We did all of it collectively; it’s very symbiotic.”
At present engaged on: “We’re at the moment engaged on an experimental xr multi-user set up and writing a script for an animated characteristic movie. Uri is recording an album. I’m doing visuals for electro-acoustic music. Subsequent yr shall be our tenth yr of working ANIDOX:LAB at The Animation Workshop – this yr’s name will concentrate on local weather motion and rising media.”