Noam Gorbat

Currently, Noam is working on her short documentary trilogy, a non-fiction project telling the stories of female* musicians of colour and their role in popular culture in Germany, funded by the Berliner Senat. Each short documentary hosts one musician for a collaboration. By taking a deep look into their public persona, personality and artistic practices, the series of short films highlights the artists’ personal questions and interests and thereby deals with broader notions such as representation, community and solidarity. Not merely does the project space for others, but it invests artistic resources in creating a hospitable creative environment in order to affirm, amplify and give new visual shapes to the protagonists’ voices, melodies and beats. Recently Noam worked as a director of photography and co-producer on Borrowed Faces, Issue No. 2, A Photo Roman by Fehras Publishing Practices, presented at Documenta 15, 2022. Borrowed Faces (2019–ongoing), addresses cultural practices in the Eastern Mediterranean ,North Africa, and the Arab diaspora during the Cold War. In the theatre piece A divine Comedy by Florentina Holzinger Noam developed a setup that includes Iphones as wireless cameras, placed in various locations on stage, feeding live video onto massive screens. Noam scored the live-feed footage, together with found footage in order to dramatize the story and adds to it a poetic gaze through performing live-camera on stage, as part of an all-female cast of performers of all ages and with a mixed background. In 2019 Noam co-directed, produced and edited the feature film THE VALLEY OF THE CROSS - a queer love story between three young women living in Palestine at the beginning of the 20th century. Set in an era of major geo-political shifts, the film follows the dreams, desires and struggles of women from different backgrounds in their common search for a better future.