Movies: Guy Ben Ner

Foreign Names focuses on the worker displacement in a compilation of video clips from Aroma, a coffee shop chain. Ben-Ner’s video shows counter staff at the coffee shops yelling nonsensical English “names,” fabricated and given to them by the artist....

In Soundtrack, artist Guy Ben Ner (Israeli, born 1969), his family, and friends reenact eleven minutes of Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi film War of the Worlds (2005) in his apartment in Tel Aviv....

In Stealing Beauty (2007), the artist's family staged guerrilla theater in Ikea showrooms: Moving among the displays, they conduct a reasonable facsimile of family life; dishes are done, discipline imposed, discussions held (private property is a top...

Guy Ben-Ner, one of Israel's foremost video artists, gained international recognition with a series of low-tech films, starring his family in absurdist settings carved out of their intimate spaces and their everyday surroundings. Many of his videos a...