It was shown at Horn Film Festival for Experimental Films, and chapter 5 from it which bears itself the title 'When I First Met You' was and is shown at exhibitions in Israel and abroad.
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Nir Shitrit is a scholar and an artist. He works mainly with video, music, fashion and writings. He is based in Jerusalem, Israel, and he is an M.A and a B.F.A Graduate from Bezalel, academy of art and design.
His B.F.A is from the screen-based arts department (video and new-media), and his M.A is from the policy and theory of the arts department (research and writing).
Nir is known for working with his family very intimately. As he himself and his parents are the actors in his works - Nir is analyzing and bringing himself to behold their relationships and dynamics, their memories, their unconscious, their singularity and their relevance, in a profound and radical way.
Coming from the worlds of cinema, films, music, Judaism, mysticism, philosophy, literature and video art - Nir forms deep and layered bodies of work, hosting and dealing with subjects like Consciousness, the Self, Self-Image, Masculinity and Sexuality, Intimacy and Anxiety, Weakness and Confidence, Overcoming and Power, Initiation and Freedom, Tragedy and Creation.