
Director's Cut
Nitzan Gilady
Even when he is a photographer, Nitzan Gilady is a filmmaker. Waiting patiently, he allows time for the scene to materialize in front of him before he moves ahead and captures the photo.
Through his camera lens, the entire world is a movie. Romantic, dramatic, fantastic, set in a different place. Every photo is a complete story told in the blink of an eye.
His photos look like they emerged from our dreams, or perhaps some faraway realm. The beaches and seaports of Israel are tinged with the hues of European lands, Mitzpe Ramon becomes the surface of the moon, and the towering concrete buildings – miniatures – become solitary envoys of a vast, unknown, jigsaw puzzle.
Even when he is a filmmaker, Nitzan Gilady is an artist. Every scene he directs is a picture, a world. We can watch his films with the sound off and they will still tell us a story. We could say that he composes a soundtrack with visual images.
The artist’s sensitive touch distills beauty from the dreary and mundane. Even the ugly, grimy, dusty, hulking, cranes – which usually make us shut our windows to hide their unsightliness or dodge when we encounter them on the street – are reinvented as antique pieces of jewelry, adorning the neck of everyday life with splendor.





























