Ido Fluk | Israel

I had dinner this week, in a swanky Brooklyn restaurant, with some people I didn’t really know. And as I sat down, one of them asked me: ‘So… do you come from work?’ and I had to say ‘No’, because I didn’t come from work.
Because I don’t have ‘a work…’”.

‘Polar Bears’ is a video work completed in May 2005. Part figurative and part abstract, part environmental-tale and part personal-essay, the work examines two seemingly different stories: the first about an oil company engineer who tells me about designing a big drill site in Siberia (and cutting down an entire forest in the process) and the second about a young man’s desire for fame in the age of celebrity kings and queens. What common grounds do the white bears of Siberia have with the young New York, wannabe-famous artist? None, it seems. And yet both still co-exist within the same palette of experiences that defines a modern western existence: Everyone wants to be famous these days, everyone wants to be rich: there aren’t enough Polar Bears in this world. There are too many ‘artists’.

BIOGRAFIA DOS AUTORES: Ido Fluk was born in 1980 in Israel and is a filmmaker and video-artist living in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been shown in galleries (Black Lab Seattle; Collective Unconscious New York; Micro-Museum Brooklyn), worldwide festivals (Invideo in Milan, Italy; Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin; Darklights, Dublin Ireland and Filmstock UK) and won such awards as the Warner Bros. Pictures film production award, The Israeli Council for the Arts travel and presentation grant, Adbusters ABTV award and the Jerusalem Film Festival\'s Young Director\'s award. He holds a BFA in film production and art and public policy from New York University. For more information log on to: www.idofluk.com.