Last Thursday I attended the Omer Fast exhibition at the James Cohan gallery. The first thing that caught my attention about this exhibition was the the space that was used for it, although it might’ve seen like your typical gallery space, something about this one gave me this sense of intimacy, i don’t know what exactly gave me it this effect, maybe the work that was been shown to us? the way in which it was displayed? or the material that the videos themselves dealt with, or even the visuals that were been shown to us. Either way, this made my experience much more enjoyable in my opinion. If this was what they were aiming for, they successfully achieved it. As I walked in and began to watch the first video, just within the very first few minutes of watching just a small portion of it, I instantly came to realize that the material was going to very emotional and although this was also successfully portrayed by Omer to us, it made me think of the personal value that this had for Fast himself. After watching this i was somewhat confused because as focused as i was trying to understand the story line i believe i was way more focused in trying to figure out which part was the very beginning of the video as you cant really tell at first glance. I really enjoyed 5000 feet is the best mainly because of the very cinematic effect that the video had, the story line developed under this suspenseful, yet very intriguing material related to war and the after-effects of it, which is something that i believe is still very relevant today. The elements used in this video were what caught my attention mainly, as everything connected in one way or another to a certain degree. For instance the family in a way portrayed innocence to me, the drone gave me this “God” or third person who sees it all but doesn’t get involved in the story perspective. The military influence which helped me picture somewhat the violence and in a way there’s a sense of truthiness to it, also, the interviewer as the person who only listens to what he’s been told but doesn’t do anything about it; and of course the outcome of this and how its related to us. There was a lot of realism vs surrealism that is dealt all throughout which is extremely intriguing to me in a very dramatic way.