Filmed on an industrial site littered with a grid of giant silos called “Ramid”, this piece documents actual events that took place during filming – pigeons feeding on grain, and trucks arriving and departing. However, the candid footage is spliced with shots of action directed by the artist. The scale of this setting seemingly distorts reality, as people walking throughout the site appear small, though the trucks look like toys being filmed within a miniature. The atmosphere is closed and oppressive, and the film conveys a sense of impending disaster.

 

In this society, the characters, including the animals wandering around the site appear to follow a set of rules and procedures meant to maintain their space. The Men constantly come and go, loading and unloading their trucks with grain. The Women stay in one place, preserving the area by endlessly sweeping. There is one character that does not conform. Like a boy, he plays, climbs, and chases after the birds.  

 

The cone-shaped feeding hole of the silo is reminiscent of a breast, feeding this society, much like the myth of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, who themselves were depicted feeding on the breasts of a she-wolf. 

 

“Ramid” was influenced by Samuel Beckett’s short story The Lost Ones. Ramid is a closed world maintained by order. And like in Beckett’s world, 

 

“Ramid” was first screened at the Israel Philharmonic Opening Gala, and later at the “Kibbutz Gallery” 2015, Tel Aviv.