Journeying through their homeland and recalling autobiographical memories along the way, Ashery observes how both senses of belonging have and continue to fuse with the vertiginous and winding flows of nation-building, infrastructure and land use.
Dying Under Your Eyes explores the sudden death of Daniel, the artist’s elderly father, in 2018. The film unravels the processes of ageing, dying, grief and intimate surveillance as witnessed on Ashery’s smart phone. Like a detective, Dying Under Your Eyes follows the circumstances leading to Daniel’s death, alongside otherworldly rituals of beckoning, mourning, devotion and play performed by two family members.
Revisiting Genesis is available to view online in full and as single screen DCP or.MOV file
Winner of Jarman film award 2017
10 minutes. Mini DV. Colour with sound. An angry speech performed by Chris McCormack in two layers – voice and image – which go in and out of sync.
Also available in Chinese
Colour with sound. 2 screen video. Each 5 minutes long.
20 minutes. Mini DV. Colour with sound. Subtitles in English. Video documenting Ashery’s meeting with Sameh Aboushi in Palestine with footage of Ashery’s father in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s old city.
15 minutes. Mini DV. Colour with sound. An instructional video for those who starting as live artists in London.
4 minutes. Mini DV. Colour with sound. Ashery dancing with orthodox Jewish men at a religious celebration at the North of Israel.
4-minute 5 minutes. Mini DV. Colour. Silent. A collage of 6 films depicting violent hair shaving or cutting.
20 minutes. Mini DV. Colour with sound. Subtitles in English. Ashery asks her family to reply to the question of why they think she left Israel.
4 minutes. Mini DV. Colour with sound. Dance video featuring Ashery’s alter ego, the orthodox Jewish man Marcus Fisher, as an art student at Central St Martin School of Art.
16 minutes. Mini DV. Colour with sound. A film that fictionalises the life of Ashery’s alter ego, the orthodox Jewish man Marcus Fisher. The film uses footage from interventions, performances and home videos. Distributed also by Rencontres Internationales Paris.