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Learn MoreJanuary 2 - June 12, 2025
In Northwest Ambulatory
January 2 - June 12, 2025
In Northwest Ambulatory
Berlin-based artist Omer Fast avails himself of the conventions of documentary film while undermining its pretense of factualness. Godville features interviews Fast conducted with resident-actors in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Living and working in a town preserved as an 18th-century living museum, the film’s subjects seem to have internalized their role-playing. Godville demonstrates how fictions and simulations inform contemporary notions of history and erode the stability of truth.
This is one of several concurrent presentations throughout the museum of works given to the Allen by Driek (OC 1965) and Michael (OC 1964) Zirinsky.
Image: Omer Fast (Israeli, b. 1972), Godville (still), 2005. Two-channel video projection transferred to high definition video (color, sound, 50 min.). Gift of Driek (OC 1965) and Michael (OC 1964) Zirinsky, 2023.1.87A-E.
Ellen Johnson ’33 Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
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