WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s popular Black Box series has brought a diverse range of international film and video works to Washington for more than five years. The upcoming installation, on view Aug. 22–November 2011, features the work of Nira Pereg (Israeli, b. Tel Aviv, 1969), who creates documentary-based video projections that transform everyday occurrences into dramatic scenarios. “67 Bows” (2006), inspired by the artist’s visits to the Karlsruhe Zoo in Germany, demonstrates that transformation with disquieting effect. For this piece, Pereg spent time studying a flock of the zoo’s flamingos. She discovered particular qualities in the behavior of individual birds by setting up situations in which group responses were expected. Employing various camera angles, the artist offers sumptuous close-ups of these exotic animals calmly going about th