Silence Lost, 2005, video, 19 min

The pivotal element in the video Silence Lost is the soundtrack. During the five years in which Shuka Glotman worked on his film, he shot throughout the country, creating a sensory, dynamic cinematic collage of sounds and images.
According to Glotman, the film is akin to a farewell song from the primordial silence missing from our industrialized world; a world where artificial sounds gradually grow, threatening to overshadow our life, like the way in which the darkness of night is permeated by a flood of lights. The film’s editing critically juxtaposes the images with the natural and artificial sounds accompanying them. The film introduces questions about the power relations operating between the individual and society on the one hand, and nature and the environment, on the other. Does the loss of silence also imply the loss of inner silence? Can silence be restored? Is anyone interested in its restoration at all, or is the noise but another step in human evolution? The film and its soundtrack emphasize the growing need for moments of silence that we have lost in the bustle of the everyday.
Concurrent to the exhibition at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Glotman exhibits a series of landscape photographs at Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, introducing another facet of the same project.