Intersections at JFF 2020

Boredom
Dir.: Avishai Sivan | 5 minutes

A man of about 40 enters a vacant apartment in an abandoned building facing redevelopment. He has just returned from traveling abroad and will self-quarantine. Time stands still. Every posture, each and every step must be measured, imparting good health. Boredom sinks in. Death is a probability.

Filling Spaces
Dir.: Shachar Kantor | 15 minutes

Within fragments of memory, pieces of interviews, and personal items, lies the story of two characters coping with loss. Filling Spaces is an interactive documentary experience using 3D scans, game design, and cinematography to explore intimacy and empathy.

Junkerhaus
Dir.: Karen Russo | 8 minutes

Junkerhaus is shot in the residence of Karl Junker (1850 -1912) who dedicated his life to building his house in Lemgo, Germany. Reflections, projections and changes in light form abstract shapes which animate surfaces and structures, producing a psychological portrait that offers a new appreciation of architecture as mystical and visionary experience.

Men Are Wild Beasts, You Are Not Like Them
Dir.: Yehonatan Milo Levitas | 3 minutes

Men Are Wild Beasts, You Are Not Like Them, tells the story of a horse born in an isolated cabin to a foreign reality. A story through archetypes about gender identity, wild nature, escape, and time.

Power
Dir.: Haviv Kaptzon | 14 minutes

A video essay dealing with the relationship between man and the natural world and focusing on the dual meaning of the word “POWER,” both as an electrical energy and as a political and economic significance.

Shomer
Dir.: Dor Zlekha Levy | 9 minutes

Shomer dismantles and reassembles the architectural structure of the Magen Avraham synagogue in Beirut, in order to explore concepts such as authenticity and preservation, and their relationship with memory.