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SHORT FILMS

1977

Betoch hamaim (Under the Water)

18' – 16 mm – B&W – Israel – Film lost

A film about a diver in the Red Sea.

Shirim in Afula (Singing in Afula)

15' – 16 mm – B&W – Israel – Film lost

A film about a song competition in Afula, a small town in Galilee, and the ways of using and showing music.

Shikun / Public House

23' – 16 mm – B&W – Israel – Film lost

Low-rent housing has become a modern way of packing human beings into a single type of architectural structure that can be reproduced endlessly. The film observes and describes this process.

Political Myths

30' – 16 mm – B&W – Israel – Film lost

“Political Myths” covers the annual festival of Betar and its fascist undertones. A young man talks about creating a new Jewish race. The second sequence presents the conceptual artist Avital Gueva, who placed cow heads along the demarcation line between Israel and the occupied territories on the south coast, an evocation of Moses’ dilemma with the Golden Calf. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he intended to create an abstract religion based on a strong moral code and not on territorial assumptions. Today, the settlers base their legitimacy on a religion that is both pagan and territorial.

Hagvul (The Border)

12' – 16 mm – B&W – Israel, France

Scenes filmed near the Israeli border alternate with scenes filmed in France along the Maginot line. A film about the abstract and arbitrary nature of borders.

Dimitri

17' – 16 mm – B&W – Israel

Filmed in Versio in southern Switzerland in the Ticino, this film incorporates, through the use of parallel editing, scenes of village life and sequences showing a clown, Dimitri, who arrives for a performance, both backstage and on stage. An essay about the body, the face and its expressions, whether practiced and studied, or natural.

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