Broken

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Broken is a cross between the private history of Shalom Reiser- a painter whose been hospitalized for forty years in shelter homes in Israel for being mentally ill- and between our own general history - as a people, as a nation - Israelis.
Shalom was born in Poland, and at the age of six moved with his family to Viena. He was saved from the Nazi horror machine due to his painting talent- a talent which brought him to Bezalel - the famed Jerusalem art school, and to Israel in 1939. In 1948 Shalom moved to Paris, working there in the company of Picasso and Mark Chagall. He fell in love with Michelle - a Parisian girl.
After seven years of shared life, due to antisemitic biases of her family, and some say due to Michelle´s love for women... The couple separated.
Shalom crashes, shatters, brakes, loses his sanity.

Since then, for nearly forty years, Shalom is institutionalized in mental hospitals across the country. Michelle´s face lines appear in all his paintings.

The sad and fascinating private history of Shalom is being used as a vehicle, or a metaphor, to tell the story of a person who was not able to guard and protect himself. Through this private story, a wider story is being revealed, story of people who were not able to guard themselves in the past, and are unknowingly making critical errors in the present, in the psychological, sociological, cultural and moral aspects.
The Sad-Eyed People

I have no intention to lecture, but to tell a story, a legend, like one that is told to a child before he goes to bed. As the child´s eyes shuts and his soul travels to far away land, his sub-conscious starts to decipher info given to him while his eyes were still open.

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