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The fragrance of the yakantalisa is bent/ as the fragrance of philosophy is” bent/ hers.” In May 1994 one of the most complex, unique and significant voices in Israeli culture fell silent. The poet, artist, choreographer, and critic Hezi Leskly died at age 42 of AIDS. In February 1996, a film crew followed in the wake of the words he left behind, to the cities in which he lived and created – Givatayim, The Hague, and Amsterdam, to meet the people of Leskly’s life. Through them, a complicated life, full of uncontainable drives is uncovered, a synthesis of many forces at work in one person, son of Holocaust survivors, an exile in the midst of his Israeli surroundings, who sought his personality in a foreign land. He was a declared homosexual, multimedia artist, Tel Aviv culture hero, with a highly developed sense of humor and, above all, a poet who enchanted those surrounding him.
Yakantalisa is a film portrait of a dead writer, an attempt to unravel a secret, an uncompromising effort to reveal the genetics of beauty: the raw materials from which artistic creation is assembled and grows like the bent Yakantalisa. Leskly knew that life and art demand their pound of flesh. As a total artist who blurred the boundary between the two, he paid dearly.
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