The baker
The Baker is an experimental video work blending cinema, performance, dance, and text, navigating the liminal space between dreaming and waking, narrative and wild association, spirit and matter. It follows a man trapped in a pizzeria, endlessly kneading dough while dreaming of escape, mirroring an internal basement where the dough becomes a primal material shaping his inner world. Through this loop of kneading and yearning, the work explores failure, desire, and the blurred boundary between creator and creation. The performance unfolds as a surreal horror cinema, where the filmed loop itself seeks to become material—an indeterminate time and space stretching and folding like dough, forever reshaping itself.
Nitzan Cohen
Born in Israel, 1974. Creates for film and stage Between 2017 – 2021, he served as the Artistic director of Tmuna Theater, initiating and overseeing special projects and collaborations in the field of multidisciplinary arts. Since 2020, he has been working as a director and video editor on various independent projects along side developing stage formats. He co-directs and serves as the artistic director, alongside Renana Raz, of the stage format VHS – Blast from the Past. Among his works: The Lexicon of Phantoms of East Tel Aviv, How to Wake Up in the Morning After October 7th, and the short films The Agent, The Baker, and The Paperboy (collaborations with Shahar Marcus).
Shahar Marcus
Shahar Marcus is an active artist for over a decade and has exhibited at various art- institutions, both in Israel and around the world, including: The Tate Modern ,The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art , Charlottenburg, Copenhagen- Kunsthalle , Moscow Biennale, Poznan Biannale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art and at other art- venues in Polland, Italy, Germany, Georgia, Japan, the USA and Turkey. Many of his works are a part of various important collections, such as The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art as well as art- intuitions in Poland and Italy.