This minimalist experimental short is the opposite of a sports documentary. Instead of photographing the field or the athletes, filmmaker Zohar Elefant inverts our gaze, focusing exclusively on the animated, wide-eyed face of the eponymous Israeli soccer fan as she watches a live Hapoel game in a Tel Aviv stadium. The actual athletic contest is never depicted on screen, and each shot is fairly static, so the game is only visible as a reflection on Sivan’s alternately tortured and ecstatic face. In its portrayal of a single viewer’s performative singing, chanting, screaming, mocking, pleading, phone-talking, weeping, and praying, this funny, noisy film manages to move beyond sports to touch lightly on issues of spectatorship, politics, history, religion, and family in contemporary Israel. By blurring the lines between ethnographic, art film, and reality television aesthetics, Sivan conjures a humorous, tongue-in-cheek answer to Zidane, the 2006 documentary that followed the soccer star through a single game.  BG