Beyond Guilt- The Trilogy
Ruti Sela (1974 Israel) & Maayan Amir (1978 Israel)

Beyond Guilt #1, 2003, 9'
Beyond Guilt #2, 2004, 18'
Beyond Guilt #3, 2005, 14'

The series "Beyond Guilt" addresses the undermining of the power relation between photographer and photographed, men and women, the public domain and the private sphere, object and subject. As the film's directors, Sela and Amir take an active part in the occurrence. They seduce the interviewees on the one hand, and turn the camera over to them, on the other, as part of the aforesaid undermining of power relations between photographer and subject.

The choice of pick-up bar services or hotel room as shooting locations strives to represent an underworld with its language and signifiers.
The quick encounter before the camera calls to mind the ephemeral nature of intimate relations, but most of all the works allude to the influences of the occupation, terror and army as constitutors of an Israeli identity even in the most private moments, The sexual identity and the military-political identity seem intertwined inseparably.

>>> ruti sela - cv

>>> Ma'ayan Amir - cv

During 2003 we filmed encounters with guys and girls we met in bars.

We filmed the whole movie at the toilets of the bars.

During 2004 we made contact through a dating website on the internet with the men seen in the movie.
Every evening we started the chatting at eight o'clock, from ten o'clock and forth we arranged with the men to arrive to the hotel room in intervals of thirty minutes with each one.

In October 2005 we ordered a prostitute to a cheep hotel room.
We have asked her to film the movie.