Rambo, 2007, video , 2:51 min

Rambo by Yaron Atar and Ishay Gross presents two young people seated on a sofa watching the film Rambo. In one of the film’s climatic moments, when Sylvester Stallone pulls a bullet out of his muscular body, the two spectators get up and imitate his movements with blank automatic gestures. The two couch actors adopt a radicalized, exaggerated masculinity as a model of identification, which they imitate in a type of a grotesque coming-of-age ritual in the domestic living room.