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Omer Fast

location: Yerushalayim, Yisra'el
year born: 1972
gender: male
nationality: Israeli

In his videos and installations, Omer Fast links and merges personal stories, collective history reality and fiction as well as experience and one’s making of it. Fast is interested in different types of discourse carried out in contemporary political and social events. In the work CNN concatenated (2002), for instance, an American journalist’s speech is modified to deliver a different meaning. Omer Fast was born in 1972 in Jerusalem, Israel. He lives and works in Berlin.


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Other works by: » Omer Fast

A Tank Translated
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Omer Fast

2002

In this work, Omer Fast probes the feelings experienced by young people involved in an acts of war...

De Grote Boodschap
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Omer Fast

2007

This work is based on a temporal loop in which the stories of several duets coexist and interfere with each other...

5,000 Feet
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Omer Fast

2011

“Watching the films of Omer Fast confounds our expectations of the medium...