The Escape Artists is a movie about the journey of Miri, an Israeli performance artist, who joins her husband in a life with a Belgian traveling circus.  Miri gives up a life of comfort and moves into an 8 meter square caravan to live and work with Adrian. The movie tells a very delicate story of relationship, struggle and self fulfillment in the magical world of the circus.

The Ronaldo Circus is a six generation circus from Belgium run by the Ronaldo family who have created a circus-theater combining the Comedia del Arte with the classical circus genre.

The story follows the difficulties of living together as a couple while working side by side. When Miri joins the circus she finds herself working mainly back stage, in the shadows. While Adrian is in the spotlight playing the famous Comedia del Arte character , the Capitano, Miri is backstage working the lights.

Her lack of self-fulfillment affects the couple and requires Miri to make an elementary choice – to stay with Adrian and the circus or to return to Israel. 

The Escape Artists is a documentary about a sensitive and complex story of relationship, inspired by the theatrical world it explores.

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

 Jerusalem International Film Festival
 Nanook Film Festival, Palermo
 Chaplin - International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival, Estonia
 Slovenian Documentary Film Festival, Ljubljana



TV SCREENINGS

 Yes, Israel

QUOTES

" In Escape Artists Rachel Rusinek becomes so involved in the relationship between the young couple and the touring performers that it seems the protagonists have forgotten all about the camera, but an attentive spectator will grasp that it is the camera that has shaped the denouement as well as conveyed the most intimate sentiments of the concerned." (Jelka Stergel, Festival Selector and CD Film Programme Head).