Omer Fast: Godville runs August 7 - 11

Omer Fast, Dogville 2004. Image: plugin.org

Video Installation by Omer Fast opens this Thursday, August 9 @ 7:00pm

Plug In ICA in Winnipeg presents Israeli-born, Berlin-based artist Omer Fast’s video installation Godville. This topsy-turvey portrait of a community straddling historical periods is, at 50 minutes,long but worth it and definitely not to be missed!

Visit the Plug In website HERE

Omer Fast, Dogville 2004. Installation view. Image: postmastersart.com

From August 7-11, don’t miss this disorienting portrait of a community straddling historical periods. Fast interviews people living and playing the role of characters in Colonial Williamsburg (Virginia, USA).

Omer Fast, Dogville 2004. Installation view. Image: postmastersart.com

In this seemingly documentary context, Fast cuts and re-cuts his footage to create unsettling collages of people whose words reflect a time better left to the past.

Read Holland Cotter’s New York Times review HERE

Read more about Mr. Fast’s earlier work HERE