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Experimental cinema in collaboration with the Mamuta Art and Media Center

After our long stint in suspended time, we welcome you back to the immersion and intimacy of a dark movie theater. To celebrate, we have put together a compelling program we hope will energize you.

The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards, always a pivotal point, allow us to promote and support local artists/ filmmakers, thus enabling them to continue their work. The selected films respond to the current audio-visual scene and present us with a multiplicity of practices that are engaging and respond to our current uncanny times. 

Two prizes will be awarded: The Lia van Leer Award on behalf of Rivka Saker and the Ostrovsky Family Fund Award.

Other Textures, Other Pleasures is composed of two programs of exploratory moving images made by women. Starting in the last century and ending now, it is a multicentric adventure through global geography. These handmade works reveal hidden poetics which prod us to perceive things in another light and can lead to other pleasures. Following the screening, a discussion will take place between Sharon Balaban, Vivian Ostrovsky, and the public.

To balance the female gaze we have chosen Arnaud des Pallières’ Journal d'Amérique which uses archives (the Prelinger archives, free on internet), as cinematographic territory, composing an impressive ‘work diary’ which weaves its way through the 20th century via thoughts by mostly American writers, philosophers, thinkers - all on intertitles - and mostly a male point of view. While the charismatic color footage dictates its own story, memory is what holds the film together.

Come and explore our programs; we hope you will find them impactful, stimulating, and captivating. See you soon!

Vivian Ostrovsky and Sala-Manca

The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2022

76 Minutes

Blueprint Dir.: Dan Robert Lahiani | 73 Dir.: Meshy Koplevitch | Edri at Mea She'arim Dir.: Marcelle Tehila Bitton | Barik Dir.: Dor Zlekha Levy | Grandmother Carmela Dir.: Yoel Peled | Behind the Sun, By the Sea Dir.: Danielle Shufra | جثمان كلب (A Dog's Funeral) Dir.: Yara Mahajna 

73

Dir.: Meshy Koplevitch
| 14 minutes

The filmmaker uses watercolor to reconstruct the memories of her father. Together, they go back in time to the year the Yom Kippur War began. The attempt to deal with his memories reveals a gap between the invincible father and one who hides within an unforgotten war and fear of death. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2022

American Journal

Dir.: Arnaud des Pallières
| 112 minutes

Ten years after AMERICAN DUST, French filmmaker, Arnaud des Pallières brought AMERICAN JOURNAL to this year's Berlin Festival. The new film continues the colorful and historic style of his previous work as a cinematic essay - an interwoven tapestry of various private and anonymous archival material and intertitles reflecting thoughtful speculation and extraordinary poetry.

Barik

Dir.: Dor Zlekha Levy
| 10 minutes

Excerpt: Barik Sale, a refugee from Darfur, fled his home as a child and arrived in Israel alone as a minor. The film tells the story of his escape, and recreates his traumatic journey through audiovisual means, using foley studio recordings and binaural field recordings. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2022

Blueprint

Dir.: Dan Robert Lahiani
| 11 minutes

Shortly after artist Dan Robert Lahiani arrived at the 12th floor of the Clal Building for an osteopathic session, his personal quest for connection, home, and healing became entangled with the dilapidated and crumbling building’s angsts, aches, and neglect. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2022

Edri at Mea She'arim

Dir.: Marcelle Tehila Bitton
| 14 minutes

Four scenes from BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S were taking apart and filmed again in Mea She’arim, Jerusalem. While sticking to the same storyboard, the work examines the new narrative, following the mechanisms of the local female Orthodox film industry, dealing with questions of glamour and values, gender and forgery, attribution and belonging, within political and socio-cultural systems. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2022