Systema

Obsession


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Documentary film with a strong esthetic value, following the Israel synchronized swimming team, observing the individual in its attempt to find a place in a collective.


Synchronized swimming is a strange phenomenon, a unique combination of art and a competitive sport. The film will observe both worlds: the human drama as it is expressed through the struggles and personal conflicts, and the esthetical synchronized experience and ideology folded in it.


The difference between the worlds is distinct and fascinating and in my opinion is a microcosm of a greater struggle between different and contradictory perceptions: the capitalistic competitive perception, which focuses on the individual, and the communist perception, which sanctifies the strength of the collective and the art that cannot be measured nor competed.


The film's arena is the swimming pool which represents a world with its own unique set of rules. It is divided into two parts – the underwater, a world of poetics, abstract, and enigma. The sound is obscured, representing an inner world. The other part, above the water, contains strong, realistic, sharp set of rules, those that are held by Coach Lola.


This sport represents to me 'a disappearing world', the complete opposite of the spirit of this hedonistic, individual, linear values, known in our everyday life.


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