Marcus Fisher’s Wake
Oreet Ashery
The mock documentary Marcus Fisher’s Wake shows some of the public interventions conducted by Oreet Ashery’s alter ego, Orthodox Jew Marcus Fisher. Ashery combines documentary material produced in Berlin, Tel Aviv and London, with home videos and anonymous photographic stills. The film thus charts the fictional life of the character Marcus Fisher, from his childhood to his early death.
Oreet Ashery
Born in 1966 in Jerusalem, Ashery studied art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and Sheffield Hallam University. The work of the London-based artist is exhibited at internationally renowned galleries and museums and has received numerous prestigious prizes. Ashery’s work explores such subjects as Judaism, ethnicity, gender and the Arab and Muslim world.
Films by Oreet Ashery (Selection)
Party for Freedom 2013 | Monkey Bum Factory 2011 | Hairoism there is nothing more exciting than this 2011 | Semitic Score, Dancing With Men, Saved Under the Sign 2010 | Raging Balls 2010 | Why Does He Make Work 2008 | Back in 5 Minutes 2005 | Necessary Journeys 2005 | Shopping List for Live Art 2004 | Dancing With Men 2003
