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SHORT FILMS

1972

Memories of a comrade of the 2nd Aliya

8' – Super-8 – Color, B&W – Silent (soundtrack lost) – Israel

In Hebrew “Aliya” means “wave of immigration.” Through a photo montage, Amos Gitai evokes the memories of the generation of his grandfather, who arrived from Russia in 1905.

Windows in David Pinsky no.5

4' – Super-8 – Color – Silent – Israel

Street scenes filmed by Amos Gitai from the windows of his mother’s apartment.

Souk Women’s dialogues

3'20" – Super-8 – Color – Silent – Israel

Several elderly women sitting and talking in front of their homes. The camera concentrates on their expressions and their faces.

Galim (Waves)

5' – Super-8 – Color – Silent – Israel

The sea, waves and sand are unrecognizable in this highly pictorial essay on light, color, framing and textures.

Geography according to Modern man and His Control on the Environnement

4'25" – Super-8 – Color – Silent – Israel

Short critical essay concerning habitat and the city according to modern man.

Textures

3'20" – Super-8 – Color – Silent – Israel

The side of the road filmed from a car window. An impressionistic panorama of the earth, the vegetation and the horizon.

Black Is White

3'15" – Super-8 – Color, B&W – Silent – Israel

A pyrotechnic essay about light and movement, filmed at night.

Details of Architecture

13' – Super-8 – Color – Silent – Israel

A film about the buildings designed by Munio Weinraub Gitai, a Bauhaus-trained architect and father of Amos Gitai (who at that time was a student of architecture). How to animate drawings and plans.

Arts and Crafts and Technology

9' – Super-8 – Color – Silent – Israel – Film lost

Concerning craftsmen’s building techniques in architecture.

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