Presenter (in Heb.): Yael Mazor
Yael Mazor is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. In her research and lectures, she focuses on German cinema through the prisms of history, memory, and film historiography.
A Purim Spiel unlike any other about "the days when the Jews found rest from their enemies and the month that was transformed from pain to joy, from mourning to a feast day." A formidable feast for the eyes, performed by Central and South-East European immigrants.
"My archive of objects is equal to the no less real archive of my memory. They animate each other and bring forth ever new and unexpected images and ideas. It is as if one were watching, as it takes shape, the play of thinking with its infinite interconnections." (Ulrike Ottinger)
"I am Superbia. The first of the seven capital sins. I am always the first," says Superbia in this episode from the omnibus film, SEVEN WOMEN, SEVEN SINS. "Watching her films is like traveling through an undiscovered country of marvels." (Leslie Camhi, Village Voice). Starring Ottinger's magical muse, Delphine Seyrig.
A poetic and timeless montage of documented industrial wastelands and Berlin cityscapes provides a gathering place for scenes from Ulrike Ottinger's Berlin Trilogy: TICKET OF NO RETURN, FREAK ORLANDO, and DORIAN GRAY IN THE MIRROR OF THE YELLOW PRESS.
