Israel 2010, 34:30 minutes

Out premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Orizzonti Award for best medium-length film. The film begins with a misleadingly straightforward interview in which the two women stars of the film talk about their predilection for sadomasochistic sex, the Israeli BDSM scene, and also about their political leanings. The interview gradually shifts into the realm of fiction when the submissive claims to be possessed by Avigdor Lieberman, an extreme right-wing politician, while the dominatrix hopes to use her erotic prowess to expel the demon. Out’s central scene presents this attempt: a domination/ submission scene set in a mundane living. The sub responds to the blows she receives not only by gasps of pleasure and pain but also by spewing out sentences, which are all actual quotes from Lieberman. Thus, an erotic act becomes a political exorcism. While bringing to kind rituals of exorcism in Jewish pieces of literature (the Dybbuk) or in popular cinema (The Exorcist), the scene also lays out the xenophobic and violent basis of nationalist ideology.