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Shortly before the wave of Israeli horror films, it was in the Death of Peace films from the early 2000s that Utin found dimensions of fantasy, surrealism, and fairy tales. In fact, it is the combination of these elements within a realistic, often hyper-realistic, and frequently cruel and bloody world or story that transforms these films into touching elegies, eulogies to vanished hopes for peace. Utin takes a deep dive into the comic book imagery and children's fairy tales in the “Requiem” films, finds a little bit of hope in imagination and calls for action.

In June 1926, some 5,000 people gathered to watch a show trial in the center of the first Hebrew city, Tel Aviv. The defendant was the iconic play The Dybbuk. Its fantastical and unrealistic dimensions were the center of the discussion. The trial exposed the threat that these elements posed to Israeli society and its young, emerging culture, but also the potential they held.

When he was twelve years old, Shadrach went on a summer vacation to his uncles’ house in “New Sderot”. While he was there, a disaster occurred. Nano-gas was spread on the inhabitants by the Zen-Americans, the powers that ruled the world at the time. The inhabitants become predators and prey, zombie-like. “In Exile-Tel Aviv (“Ha-Gola […]