InsightSkin

Yael Elbee is a versatile filmmaker whose work has been showcased at festivals across the US, Japan, and Europe. With a background in both documentary and narrative cinema, she crafts visually striking and emotionally resonant films that blur the line between reality and
interpretation. Her artistic practice is defined by a deep engagement with human experience, often weaving together personal narratives, historical reflection, and experimental storytelling. She has collaborated with Amazon Prime, Studio Canal, and ZDF in the editorial department, yet her independent work embraces a more tactile, introspective approach. By infusing her films with wit, vulnerability, and a sharp awareness of storytelling’s transformative power, Yael creates cinematic experiences that linger in the mind, questioning the boundaries between truth and memory.

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Good People (In Production, 2023 – Present)
People Call Me Crazy (2024)
Elephant Skin (2024)
Lavender Man (2024)
SlutLust (2022)

Moran Sanderovich uses her sculpture, performance, video and drawing works to embody alternative human forms. She engages the grotesque and uncanny to produce visceral narratives of agency, transformation and potentiality. Her work challenges and confuses normative conceptions of bodily limitation, taking disability, mutation, and decay as starting points for other forms of life. Many of Sanderovich’s sculptures are made to be performed, acting as prosthetics that transform her body through extension or truncation. Moran Sanderovich (b. 1980 in Israel-Palestine) is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist. Her artistic practices include performance, sculpture, installations and drawings. Sanderovich studied at the school of visual theater in Jerusalem. Her works have been shown in various museums such as the Kunsthalle Mannheim (DE), the KunstHaus Potsdam (DE) GRIMMWELT museum in Kassel (DE), the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt (DE), the GL Holtegaard Museum in Copenhagen (DK), the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg (DK) and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (IL). She also collaborates with different theaters such as Maxim Gorki in Berlin, Staatstheater Hannover and the Nationaltheater Mannheim and she shows her work in performance festivals and exhibits in galleries around the world, including the Festival D’Avignon (FR) 2022 and the Mannheimer Sommer 2022, HAUT | SKIN at the Stadthistorisches Museum Mainz 2023.

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