BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//mamuta art & research center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:mamuta art & research center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mamuta.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for mamuta art & research center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Jerusalem BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:IDT DTSTART:20190329T000000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20191026T230000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:IDT DTSTART:20200327T000000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20201024T230000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:IDT DTSTART:20210326T000000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20211030T230000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:IDT DTSTART:20220325T000000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20221029T230000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:IDT DTSTART:20230324T000000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20231028T230000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:IDT DTSTART:20240329T000000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20241026T230000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:IDT DTSTART:20250328T000000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20251025T230000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:IDT DTSTART:20260327T000000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20261024T230000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20251107T113000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20251107T123000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033008 CREATED:20251102T145545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T125004Z UID:13811-1762515000-1762518600@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Gallery Tour at Resounding Voice DESCRIPTION:Join us for a gallery tour at Netta Weiser’s solo show Resounding Voice. \nFree Entrance. URL:https://mamuta.org/event/guided-tour-of-resounding-voice/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/resoundoig-voice-tour-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20251031T130000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20251031T140000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033008 CREATED:20251102T143901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T104138Z UID:13804-1761915600-1761919200@mamuta.org SUMMARY:A Performance by Tom Klein at Resounding Voice DESCRIPTION:Cellist Tom Klein\, performs a contemporary musical response to Brigitta Schiffer’s string quartet from 1933\, at “Resounding Voice”\, a new exhibition at the Mamuta Art and Research Center. The quartet’s second movement draws inspiration from a phonograph recording of a funeral song performed by a boys’ choir\, which Schiffer recorded in an oasis in Egypt that same year. The original manuscript of the composition is preserved in the archives of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. \n\nPhoto: Nitay Levy \n\nhttps://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WhatsApp-Video-2026-03-18-at-12.32.59.mp4 URL:https://mamuta.org/event/a-performance-by-tom-klein-at-resounding-voice/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Tom-Klein-photo-by_nitai-levi.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20251031T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20251031T140000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033008 CREATED:20251017T080602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T112109Z UID:13765-1761912000-1761919200@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening: Resounding Voice DESCRIPTION:Opening event for Resounding Voice at The Mamuta Art and Research Center – The first solo exhibition in Israel by artist and choreographer Netta Weiser. In the exhibition\, Weiser reactivates a sound archive recorded in Egypt in 1933 by Brigitta Schiffer (1909–1986)\, a Jewish-German composer and musicologist whose life was shaped by experiences of migration and exile. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will feature cellist Tom Klein\, who will perform a contemporary musical response to Schiffer’s string quartet from 1933. The quartet’s second movement draws inspiration from a phonograph recording of a funeral song performed by a boys’ choir\, which Schiffer recorded in an oasis in Egypt that same year. The original manuscript of the composition is preserved in the archives of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNetta Weiser is an artist and choreographer based in Berlin. Her work combines sound installation\, performance\, and experimental radio. In 2019\, she founded Radio-Choreography\, an artistic research project dedicated to developing alternative methods of documenting dance through sound. \n\n \n \n \n \n צילום: מדני סלומון\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: מנדי סלומון\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: נעמה מוקדי\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: נעמה מוקדי\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: מנדי סלומון\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: מנדי סלומון URL:https://mamuta.org/event/exhibition-opening-resounding-voice/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-16-at-17.15.42.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20251003T113000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20251003T123000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250916T111028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T115907Z UID:13633-1759491000-1759494600@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Hugs-Appendix: Closing Event DESCRIPTION:Closing Event of the Exhibition “Hugs” by artist Ruti Sela and a conversation with her.\nDuring the event\, the work-in-progress “Hugs-Appendix” will be screened. The piece includes research and media-based investigation of the people filmed in “HUGS 1999”\, alongside a facial recognition search using artificial intelligence\, raising ethical questions. \nRuti Sela is an artist working between cinema\, performance\, and video art. Her works have been exhibited in Israel and internationally. She has received numerous awards\, including the Anselm Kiefer Prize\, the Young Artist Award\, the Creation Encouragement Award\, and the Senior Video Artist Award. \n\n \n \n \n \n צילום: אור אלוני\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: אור אלוני URL:https://mamuta.org/event/hugs-appendix-closing-event/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hugs-appendix.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250829T113000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250829T123000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250903T113424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T115540Z UID:13514-1756467000-1756470600@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Close-Up Hugs: Gallery Talk with Ruti Sela and Dr. Gilad Reich DESCRIPTION:As part of the exhibition “Hugs” by artist Ruti Sela\, a gallery talk will be held between her and Dr. Gilad Reich\, Curator of the Noel and Harriette Levine Department of Photography at the Israel Museum\, Jerusalem.\nThe conversation will explore ideas around photography\, archives\, documentation\, and ethics. In addition\, the discussion will address the various processes that have characterized Sela’s work throughout her career\, as well as the works presented in the current exhibition. \nRuti Sela is an artist working across film\, performance\, and video art. Her works have been exhibited in Israel and internationally. She has received numerous awards\, including the Anselm Kiefer Prize\, the Young Artist Award\, the Creation Encouragement Award\, and the Senior Video Artist Award. \nGilad Reich is the Curator of the Noel and Harriette Levine Department of Photography in the Fine Arts Wing at the Israel Museum\, Jerusalem. \n\n \n \n \n \n צילום: נעמה מוקדי\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: נעמה מוקדי\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: נעמה מוקדי\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: נעמה מוקדי\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: נעמה מוקדי\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: נעמה מוקדי URL:https://mamuta.org/event/close-up-hugs-gallery-talk-with-ruti-sela-and-dr-gilad-reich/ CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Hugs-2025-9-נערך-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250724T193000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250724T213000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250729T134002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T113252Z UID:13026-1753385400-1753392600@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening - HUGS DESCRIPTION:Ruti Sela\, Hugs\, solo exhibition. \nMamuta Art and Research Center\, Hansen House\, Jerusalem\, \nas part of the Jerusalem Film Festival and Manofim Festival. \nCurator: Lea Mauas (sala-manca) \nOpening: Thursday\, 24.07.25\, 19:30 \nIn artist Ruti Sela’s new exhibition at the Maamuta Art Center\, four works are presented that explore the body\, interpersonal relationships\, and technology. The central work\, Hugs 2025\, is a recreation of her first video piece\, Hugs (1999)\, a performance piece filmed on the streets of Jerusalem with the aim of collecting hugs from strangers. The entire exhibition gestures at the changes that have taken place over the past 25 years—from technological developments to shifts in values and ethics—and examines the demographic and political transformations in Israeli society and in Jerusalem over the past quarter century. \nThe exhibition also features three earlier video works: \nHugs (1999)\, the original video work\, 9:00 minutes (silent). \nHugs #2 (2017)\, a 1:30-minute video documenting a kindergarten teacher at a birthday party inviting children to kiss and hug the birthday boy—who happens to be the artist’s son. The video raises questions about education\, power\, and vulnerability—of both the child being filmed and the artist\, who\, as a parent\, documents a ritualistic event in the kindergarten setting. \nTherms and Conditions (2022)\, 1:32 minutes\, created in collaboration with Maayan Amir. This video was filmed through the thermal scope of a weapon (Infrared Thermography)\, in an attempt to document human heat traces generated by rubbing strangers’ hands on the bodies of the artists during a cold winter night in 2022\, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The work addresses the tension between the desire for human closeness and the distancing\, dehumanizing gaze of a weapon’s scope\, which blurs the identities of its filmed subjects. \nRuti Sela\, born December 1974 in Jerusalem\, is an artist living and working in Tel Aviv. Her work lies at the intersection of cinema\, performance\, and video art. Sela documents and investigates different systems of power relations\, often in the context of law\, politics\, and sexuality. Her work has been exhibited at numerous exhibitions and festivals in Israel and internationally\, including: the Tel Aviv Museum of Art\, Bat Yam Museum\, The Center for Digital Art in Holon\, the Istanbul Biennial\, Berlin Biennale\, Sydney Biennale\, Manifesta\, and institutions such as the Jeu de Paume and Centre Pompidou in Paris\, ZKM Museum in Germany\, MUMOK in Vienna\, Tate Modern in London\, and the Stedelijk Bureau in Amsterdam. \nShe has received several awards\, including the Anselm Kiefer Prize from the Wolf Foundation\, the Young Artist Award\, the Encouragement of Creativity Award\, and the Senior Video Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture. \n\n \n \n \n \n צילום: דניאל חנוך\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: דניאל חנוך\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: דניאל חנוך\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: דניאל חנוך\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: דניאל חנוך\n \n \n \n \n \n צילום: דניאל חנוך URL:https://mamuta.org/event/exhibition-opening-hugs/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hugs-2025-13-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250717T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250726T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250731T093949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T115257Z UID:13127-1752739200-1753549200@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Intersections at JFF 2025 DESCRIPTION:For the second year in a row\, the festival takes place during a time of war. Wars. Hostages remain in Gaza\, destruction continues there and here\, lives are being lost. The pain surrounding us cannot\, and should not\, be ignored. In such times\, some confront reality at hand\, while others turn to imagination\, envisioning worlds far removed from the culture of violence and offering glimpses of a different future. \nThis year’s Intersections Program navigates both paths. \nThe Experimental Cinema and Video Art Competition  \nThe Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards features seven artists with new works that engage with the present moment through varied\, poignant\, and poetic forms. \nOrientations – Daniel Kiczales | High Alert – Hadar Saifan | Carousel – Guy Hamiel | Escape Will Get You Tonight – Noa Simhayof Shahaf | A Word Required – Lyri Milo | Spirits of War – Moti Brecher | Child – Yaron Attar \nRuti Sela\, HUGS 2025 \nIn her new exhibition at the Mamuta Center\, artist Ruti Sela presents four works exploring the body\, interpersonal connection\, and technology. The central piece\, Hugs 2025\, is a reimagining of her first video work\, Hugs—a performance piece filmed on the streets of Jerusalem in 1999\, in which Sela sought out hugs from strangers. \nShooting Booth \nThree Films by Ruti Sela followed by Conversation between the Artist and Roee Rosen.\nPresented alongside Sela’s solo exhibition at the Mamuta Art Research Center. \nNathaniel Dorsky \nNathaniel Dorsky\, born in 1943\, continues to make films to this day. He is an experimental filmmaker whose work focuses on light\, movement\, and color. His films are non-narrative\, and this program offers Israeli audiences an encounter with a cinematic world entirely different from the familiar\, even within the realm of experimental film. \nTribute to Experimental Filmmaker Benjamin Hayeem \nBenjamin Hayeem (1933-2004) was an Israeli-American experimental filmmaker\, director\, writer\, and editor who created experimental films\, fiction features\, including the controversial The Black Banana (1976)\, documentaries\, and educational films. Born in Bombay\, India\, he was part of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren’s circle. Influenced by the montage principles of director Slavko Vorkapić\, he applied them extensively in his work. He was a member of the Living Theatre and part of New York’s bohemian art scene. \nNARCISA HIRSCH – A Famously Unknown Filmmaker \nExperimental filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch (1928 – 2024) was born in Berlin and moved to Argentina before WW2. Hirsch organized art happenings during the late 1960s. She turned to experimental film and video\, becoming one of the most celebrated yet not broadly known South American experimental filmmakers. Her work was shown worldwide in museums and festivals. \nmore information at the JFF website URL:https://mamuta.org/event/intersections-at-jff-2025/ LOCATION:Jerusalem Cinematheque\, 11 Hebron Road\, Jerusalem CATEGORIES:Experimental Cinema ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/אמנות-בצומת-לעירייה-קטן-Maya-deren-and-Alexander-Hammid-Mesahes-of-the-Agternoon-1943.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250613T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250613T120000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250418T080324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T130234Z UID:12482-1749812400-1749816000@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Gallery Tour with the Artist Talia Tokatly DESCRIPTION: URL:https://mamuta.org/event/gallery-tour-with-the-artist-talia-tokatly-2/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-17-at-16.19.29.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250530T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250530T120000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250418T080150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T091549Z UID:12478-1748602800-1748606400@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Gallery Tour with the Artist Talia Tokatly DESCRIPTION: URL:https://mamuta.org/event/gallery-tour-with-the-artist-talia-tokatly/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-18-at-15.14.39.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250516T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250516T120000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250418T075720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251126T104343Z UID:12473-1747393200-1747396800@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Gallery talk at "Blood Butterfly Formation" DESCRIPTION:Talia Tokatly in conversation with the curator Dveer Shaked. \nFree Entrance! URL:https://mamuta.org/event/artists-talk/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/טליה-טוקטלי_חיווטי-מוח_טכניקה-מערובת_2024_צלם-שי-הלוי_2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250408T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250408T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250408T122614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T093751Z UID:12300-1744099200-1744131600@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Exhibition Lecture with Eitan Haviv and Maayan Shelef DESCRIPTION:As part of Sonic Memory\, Eitan Haviv will join curator Maayan Shelef for a conversation about his works in the exhibition\, as part of The Musrara Hosts lecture series at Mazkeka. \nThe Musrara Hosts lecture series offers open talks to the public at Mazkeka\, featuring creators from the fields of art\, performance\, and music\, who present their current work and research. The series is in collaboration with the New Music Department\, the Department of Arts\, and the Artistic Research Program at Musrara. Series editor: Dr. Yoni Niv. URL:https://mamuta.org/event/exhibition-lecture-with-eitan-haviv-and-maayan-shelef/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/איתן-חביב_צילום-הצבה-יום-עומר_3-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250326T190000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250326T210000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250408T122336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T095327Z UID:12296-1743015600-1743022800@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Lundqvist Workshop DESCRIPTION:As part of Lundqvist and the themes it explores\, Naama Mokady invites the audience to an evening of guided imagination techniques\, focusing on each individual’s relationship with the figure of the father in their life. During the evening\, Yifat Steinmetz-Herst\, multidisciplinary artist\, poet\, and bibliotherapist\, will read from her poetry and expand the conversation around these and related topics. URL:https://mamuta.org/event/lundqvist-workshop/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/לנדקוויסט_6_נעמה-מוקדי_2024-5-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250309T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250309T190000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250408T105751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T095418Z UID:12288-1741507200-1741546800@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Artists Talk as part of the Exhibitions DESCRIPTION:Eitan Haviv and Naama Mokady in conversation with the curator Maayan Sheleff URL:https://mamuta.org/event/artist-talk-in-the-frame-of-the-exhibitions/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Landqvist-Sonic-Memory-12-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250124T130000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250124T143000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250130T190646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T095630Z UID:11905-1737723600-1737729000@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Exhibition Closing- Live Shows DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Closing Event: Two live music performances by Liel Fishbein and Eran Ivgi URL:https://mamuta.org/event/exhibition-closing-live-shows/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel CATEGORIES:Events,Performance/Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/תמונה-של-WhatsApp‏-2025-01-30-בשעה-21.00.08_0b6d40f0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250122T203000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250122T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250130T191545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250903T115042Z UID:11911-1737577800-1737577800@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Zoom meeting "For the Sake of Peace" – Twenty Four Hours Before\, Exhibition Closing DESCRIPTION:Closing discussion of the exhibition “Twenty Four Hours Before”: On Vision and Hope – From the events at The Lupines Hill (Mitzpetel) during Sukkot 2023\, through the current exhibition\, to the present state of the hill: the ongoing threat to it and the efforts of activists to protect it. \nWith the participation of: Sala-Manca Group\, Meydad Eliyahu\, Michal Govrin\, Michal Tal\, and Uriya Drori (Guri). URL:https://mamuta.org/event/zoom-meeting-for-the-sake-of-peace-24-hours-before-exhibition-closing/ LOCATION:zoom CATEGORIES:Events,Talk and Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/תמונה-של-WhatsApp‏-2025-01-21-בשעה-06.55.45_279d0c52.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250103T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20250103T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250109T123722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T100047Z UID:11719-1735905600-1735911000@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Guided Tour at the Exhibition "Twenty-Four Hours Before" DESCRIPTION:Guided tour with Meydad Eliyahu and Gil Godinger \n  URL:https://mamuta.org/event/guided-tour-at-the-exhibition-twenty-four-hours-before/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Photos-8-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241206T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241206T130000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20241205T145031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T100138Z UID:11661-1733486400-1733490000@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Guided Tour at the Exhibition "Twenty-Four Hours Before" DESCRIPTION:Guided tour with Michal Govrin and Gil Godinger URL:https://mamuta.org/event/guided-tour-in-the-exhibition-twenty-four-hours-before/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Yom-Omer_7-2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241121T190000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241121T213000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250109T131702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T100219Z UID:11729-1732215600-1732224600@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Nevertheless: Vision DESCRIPTION:The vision of Jerusalem as a “Sukkah of Peace” was fellfield in the “Sukkot Colony” we established last year on Lupine Hill — and dismantled twenty-four hours before. This exhibition documents both the dream and its fracture. \nWhat is the vision of Jerusalem on the day after October 7th?\nIn a guided tour at the exhibition and a conversation between Prof. Michal Govrin and Dr. Eli Schonefeld\, the concepts of Shmita\, Sukkah\, and femininity will be examined as components of the myth of the day after. URL:https://mamuta.org/event/nevertheless-vision/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/תמונה-של-WhatsApp‏-2025-01-09-בשעה-15.15.51_8a5b5c86.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241120T190000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241120T210000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250109T132653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T100322Z UID:11733-1732129200-1732136400@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Moshavat Sukkot- Between Architectural vision and Performative reality DESCRIPTION:Opening event of the Performance Studies Forum’s academic year (hosted by the Theater Department and the Anthropology Department of Hebrew U)\, featuring a conversation with Michal Govrin\, Meydad Eliyahu and a lecture by Dr. Ravit Talmi Cohen. URL:https://mamuta.org/event/moshavat-sukkot-between-architectural-vision-and-performative-reality/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/465432419_1306984153972397_6416227669630017406_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241030T193000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241030T213000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250109T142120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T100901Z UID:11741-1730316600-1730323800@mamuta.org SUMMARY:"PO"- Poetry Book Launch DESCRIPTION:“Po” poetry book launch by Reuteh Shachar-Ben Shaul. \nBook cover artwork: Pesach Slabosky. URL:https://mamuta.org/event/here-poetry-book-launch/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/464780441_1303563630981116_902679919802918669_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241022T190000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241022T213000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20241030T114726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250903T125756Z UID:11531-1729623600-1729632600@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Twenty-Four Hours Before - Exhibition Opening DESCRIPTION:Twenty-four hours before is an exhibition that expands\, recreates\, and documents various processes that took place during the event Moshavat Sukkot (The Sukkot Colony) held October 5-6\, 2023\, Hoshana Rabbah Eve\, on the hill known as Mitzpetel (Lupine Hill) in Jerusalem Moshevet Sukkot was an art event in the public space – an art dialogue between the Sala-Manca Group’s project during the Sukkot holiday\, Michal Govrin’s book Snapshots (Eng. ed. 2007 of Hevzekim\, 2002) and the struggle of the East Talpiot community of Mitzpetel to preserve the hill and prevent building a police station on it\, in the wake of Rami Levy’s plans to build a tourist hotel at the location of the present police station. \nThe sukkah booth is the outcome of written instructions on how to perform the Biblical commandment of “You shall live in booths for seven days” as the Israelites lived in the desert following the Exodus from Egypt. The idea of establishing a “Sukkot Colony” on Lupine Hill resulted from the desire to realize the plan drawn up by Arch. Ilana Tzuriel\, a fictional character in Govrin’s book. Tzuriel planned to establish a temporary monument to peace on the hill and a study of the laws of shmitta (the seventh year when the Land was to lie fallow)\, which was to be a space of encounter between Jews and Palestinians\, between people and nations of different backgrounds to propose a different perception of land\, locale\, and concepts of ownership and transience as a possible alternative for a different kind of existence. However\, the Gulf War put a stop to all of Tzuriel’s plans. \nTwenty years after Govrin published her book\, the Sala-Manca Group collaborated with the author and the Mitzpetel community to expand\, update\, and realize Tzuriel’s architectural design on the last day of the Sukkot festival. On the eve of Hoshana Rabbah\, participants erected the Moshavat Sukkot monument to peace dreamed up by Tzuriel. The colony was comprised of a replica of the Deller Sukkah (a work of art that became a kosher sukkah at this event)\, the Kingston Sukkah\, and the Mitzpetel Sukkah. Guided tours\, workshops\, and group sessions at the Moshavat Sukkot facilitated a discussion of timely issues\, renewing the discourse on the concept of peace\, and aroused thoughts on locale\, permanence\, preservation\, and transience. On October 5\, 2023\, installation day\, there were tours of the Hill\, an artists’ meeting\, and a writing workshop. Several of the artists slept in the sukkah overnight\, and on the morning of October 6th\, the temporary monument to peace was dismantled\, twenty-four hours before… \nThe current exhibition documents the Moshavat Sukkot events while continuing it in an expanded version. One of the sukkot that originally stood in the 2023 Moshava – the Kingston Sukkah by Sala-Manca with paintings by Brian Hoad was installed “inside-out” in 2024 with the painting on the inside walls now exhibited as external walls. The former external walls were now covered with a new painting by Meydad Eliyahu depicting the Moshavat Sukkot of 2023 from the process of mounting\, installation\, and dismantling of the “colony.” The sukkot appearing in the painting that were not painted by Eliyahu were peeled off the Kingston Sukkah and made from its wood. The wood revealed in the new painting emphasizes what is absent.  \nIn two other rooms\, Ilana Tzuriel’s architectural office has been restored. Exhibited in the room are the designs and ideas that led her to design the Moshevet Sukkot. In another room of the “studio” are photographs by Yom Omer documenting the event as well as models of the Sukkot booths. \nRoom 4 is a reference room comprising a visual and textual archive by Michal Tal\, graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Departments of Folklore and of Anthropology. Tal compiled the archive as part of the seminar on “Temporary Structures of Knowledge: The Sukkah as Performance.” in the Theatre Studies Department. The archive is devoted to the documentation of sukkot booths and their significance in 2023-2024. Sukkot booths forgotten and left behind after the massacre of October 7th were transformed from a temporary dwelling to a performative expression of collective transience in the continuing reality of the past year. \nTechnical direction and mounting: Eitan Haviv | Assistant Curator and Producer: Naama Mokady | Production Assistant and Manager\, Exhibition Spaces: Gil Godinger | Text editor: Ronit Rosenthal | Arabic translation: Anwar Ben Badis | Graphic design: Maya Shleifer  \nThanks to support from the Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts and the Jerusalem Municipality Culture Administration. Exhibit in association with the OWL Lab and the Department of Theatre Studies\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem URL:https://mamuta.org/event/twenty-four-hours-before/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Poster_Oct2024_LOW_RES-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240920T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240920T130000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250109T142649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250903T130302Z UID:11745-1726833600-1726837200@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Gallery Talk- With Blind Steps DESCRIPTION:Gallery talk at the exhibition “Witn Blind Steps” will take place on Friday\, September 20th\, at 12:00\, as part of Design Week at Hansen House.\nJudith Langlert\, the exhibition curator\, will discuss the works in the exhibition as part of a conversation on the representation of Holocaust trauma in video art in Israel from the 1970’s until today. URL:https://mamuta.org/event/gallery-talk-with-blind-steps/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/460962498_1273581070646039_1939770089871512389_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240908T210000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240908T233000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250110T090133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T101107Z UID:11752-1725829200-1725838200@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Night\, Night\, Noise. DESCRIPTION:HORA I&II&III – A new performance offering a contemporary interpretation of traditional Eastern European Hora songs. These familiar melodies are deconstructed and reassembled into a bold new sonic language. \nAmir Bolzman (computer) and Ariel Armoni (percussion) are the founders of the Ethno-noise genre\, the point where traditional music meets technology\, folk roots and radical sound. Their music dissolves and reforms\, flowing like liquid before crystallizing into new patterns. \n\n\nThis event is part of the Sidratarbut series\, supported by the Mandel Foundation and produced by the Jerusalem Foundation\, in collaboration with the Mamuta Art and Research Center and Hansen House. \nPhotography: Dana Dektor URL:https://mamuta.org/event/night-night-noise/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/458671627_1261291388541674_4715024668800675204_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240827T190000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240827T210000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250110T095651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T101220Z UID:11759-1724785200-1724792400@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Mind the Gap DESCRIPTION:Officer Az-Oolay of the Yashar-El-HaLev police began her service on August 1\, 2020\, in Balfour\, Jerusalem. Armed not with weapons\, but with heart-shaped stickers\, she aimed to spark joy\, connect with people\, and practice listening—with the heart as her guide. Since then\, she has journeyed through turbulent times\, responding to the evolving challenges of Israeli society. \nThe events of October 7 marked a turning point. Az-Oolay began working closely with evacuees and initiated marches for the release of hostages—reshaping her mission. After over three and a half years of fieldwork\, Officer Az-Oolay developed a unique method rooted in the use of love as a tool. Her work explores how to transform the narrow spaces between people into openings for connection. \nHow do we dare to enter the unknown gap between one another? How can we create space within pain? \nThis interactive performance and tour blends personal stories from the field\, exercises\, and techniques from the Yashar-El-Ha-Lev police. Audiences will be invited to participate in a journey through Beit Hansen\, where each room offers a different encounter—part storytelling\, part guided exploration of the personal and collective heart. \nPhotography: Yair Meyuhas URL:https://mamuta.org/event/mind-the-gap/ LOCATION:Mamuta Art and Media Center\, Hansen House\, Gedaliahu Alon 14\, Jerusalem\, Israel CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/454746265_1242918137045666_2386625387054963229_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240806T193000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240806T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20250513T135353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T101315Z UID:12632-1722972600-1722976200@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Film Screening "Uploading Holocaust" (2016) and Talk with the Directors DESCRIPTION:Each year\, around a quarter of Israeli high school students take part in the “Journey to Poland.” Together with teachers and parents\, they document every testimony\, barrack\, and gas chamber—alongside late-night hangouts and personal video diaries. The footage is shared online\, forming a growing archive on YouTube. \nUploading Holocaust\, (2016\, DOK Leipzig\, BR\, RBB\, ORF\, Keshet).\nDirected by: Udi Nir\, Sagi Bornstein. URL:https://mamuta.org/event/film-screening-uploading-holocaust-and-talk-with-the-creators/ LOCATION:בית הנסן\, גדליהו אלון 14\, ירושלים CATEGORIES:Events,Screening,Talk and Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/488464294_1424618385542306_7393873473883400336_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240718T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240728T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20251119T131821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T131947Z UID:13893-1721289600-1722186000@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Intersections at JFF 2024 DESCRIPTION:This year’s Intersections program is non-festive yet much-needed. Being in the middle of the war with so much suffering and death\, the hostages still not released\, we ask ourselves about the meaning of art in such dark times. We believe in the power of art to put life and creativity over destruction and death. \nThe Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards showcases eight visual artists from Israel’s most recent films. \nRustle – Yasmin Davis | Adam – Amir Yatziv | I am not afraid of the Apocalypse\, I’m afraid you don’t love me anymore – Leila Erdman-Tabukashvili | Runway Freefall – Alona Rodeh | Can’t Wait to Die – Akim Dolinsky | Little Boney and his Winter Extinguisher (at last!) – Jonathan Omer Mizrahi | Planet of Luck – Roy Menachem Markovich | “Who Am I Without My Story” – Shalom Hai \nWinners: Leila Erdman-Tabukashvili and Jonathan Omer Mizrahi \nAt the Mamuta Art and Research Center curator and scholar Judith Lenglart presents an exhibition of short films\, videos\, and photographs from the 1970s\, a decade during which performance\, body art\, and video art emerged in Israel. The works often express a confrontation of shared traumas\, like the Holocaust and the Yom Kippur War\, with identity and gender matters\, as well as the artists’ personal experiences. Participating artists: Avraham Eilat\, Gideon Gechtman\, Yoram & Alina Gross\, Haim Maor\, Joshua Neustein\, Georgette Batlle & Gerry Marx\, Dov Or Ner\, David Perlov\, Yocheved Weinfeld. \nTHE CELLAR (1963) by Nathan Gross will be shown at the Jerusalem Cinematheque. About one year after the Eichmann trial\, director Nathan Gross delves into the traumas of the Holocaust for the first time in Israeli film. Written by Gross and Shimon Yisraeli\, the script includes events culled from the director’s own life. It is the first film in Israeli cinema to adopt a Holocaust survivor’s perspective. Presented by curator Judith Lenglart. \nOnce again\, we will pay homage to one of the most acclaimed experimental filmmakers\, Chantal Akerman. GOLDEN EIGHTIES\, is a playful musical Akerman directed in 1986.Through this colorful\, recently restored escapade\, Akerman’s sharp eye examines a multitude of topics\, from capitalism and feminism to Jewish identity. Presented by scholar Ori Levin. \nTAKING VENICE by Amie Wallach is a poignant documentary recounting the 1964 Venice Biennale and how the American government intervened to assure Rauschenberg’s work would be the winning one that year. \nBRITISH WOMEN OF THE AVANT-GARDE: A FEMALE MAZE features four women filmmakers whose films are gems of experimental cinema. The filmmakers presented here have an innovative and a very personal perspective on their surrounding world. This program emphasizes the transformative influence these artists have had through their provocative works and practices that shaped the feminist art movement. \nDuring these turbulent times we are enduring we hope to bring a space for comfort\, calm\, perhaps some smiles\, and some thought on this year’s Intersections. URL:https://mamuta.org/event/intersections-at-jff-2024/ CATEGORIES:Experimental Cinema ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/אמנות-בצומת-24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20230713T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20230723T220000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20251202T144413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251202T144413Z UID:13969-1689267600-1690149600@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Intersections at JFF 2023 DESCRIPTION:Welcome to another series of collective dark room screenings\, with a harvest of new works witnessing life around us through different lenses\, free of creative or commercial constraints. \nThe Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards showcases seven visual artists from Israel’s most recent films. The competition presents an audacious approach to video art and experimental cinema\, interweaving personal and political themes and responding in diverse ways to today’s troubled environment. This broad scope of contemporary images reaches far beyond conventional narrative cinema\, from rough aesthetics to subtle poetics. \nMotherland – Dylan Joseph Schitrit | Riding Out of the Saddle – Dan Robert Lahiani | How the Lake Became a River – Sevan Smolnik | They All Died – Ayala Berger | Permanent Resident – Thalia Hoffman | He Who Says No – Tamar Nissim | Verbal Problems – Nitzan Satt \nWinners: Dan Robert Lahiani and Ayala Berger \nGlobe-trotting artist\, Irit Batsry\, presents MEMORIES OF OTHERS at the Mamuta Art and Research Center. A suite of four video installations explores the materiality of film and memory\, questioning obsolete formats and reflecting on oblivion. Prize-winning THESE ARE NOT MY IMAGES (NOT HERE NOT THERE) (2000)\, the film-essay Batsry directed in India and which won multiple international accolades\, will be screened at the Festival\, allowing us to revisit the aesthetic\, cultural and political questions the film raises nowadays. \nCANALE GRANDE (1983) by Viennese artist Friederike Pezold is a satirical mix of video and film\, which tries to re-invent television as a personal “closevision\,” using humorous video pictures      of her own body from video pictures that create a new corporal language. RETURN TO REASON\, or “a place that exists … between consciousness and unconsciousness\, between dream and wakefulness\, and between reality and the surreal world”\, resonates through Jim Jarmusch and Logan Carter’s visual music and poetics\, lending Man Ray a new life 100 years after. Philosopher\, writer and activist Paul B. Preciado’s ORLANDO\, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY\, explores gender\, identity and new technologies of the body. Taking Virginia Woolf’s book as a starting point for his autobiography\, Preciado’s interpretation is revelatory and spirited\, earning the film the Special Jury Prize in Berlin. \nCome blow off some steam with these irreverent\, feisty artists and their bodies and their works! URL:https://mamuta.org/event/intersections-at-jff-2023/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/intersections_2023.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20220706T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20220717T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20260414T135607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T135849Z UID:14853-1657094400-1658077200@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Intersections at JFF 2022 DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nTwo prizes will be awarded: The Lia van Leer Award on behalf of Rivka Saker and the Ostrovsky Family Fund Award. \nOther 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. \nTo 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. \nCome and explore our programs; we hope you will find them impactful\, stimulating\, and captivating. See you soon! \nVivian Ostrovsky and Sala-Manca URL:https://mamuta.org/event/intersections-at-jff-2022/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/american_journal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20210824T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20210904T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20260415T134326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T134517Z UID:14872-1629792000-1630774800@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Intersections at JFF 2021 DESCRIPTION:For most of this past year we have been trying to find our way through uncharted territory. Last year’s version of the Festival was online and limited\, and INTERSECTIONS featured only the Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards.\nFor this year’s chapter\, we are decidedly in a better frame of mind and joyfully snapping back with a program which will take you on a trip through time\, place\, and space. To help us out of the usual confined mode\, screenings will be followed by live ‘snapchats’ for the curious who want to know more about the diverse works presented.\nFirst off\, the Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards will continue to support and promote local contemporary artists’ work. The current selection will undoubtedly touch on the political and aesthetic trends of this most unusual period.\nFor those who need an escape from our everyday lives\, however\, we are offering a chance to see recently restored films by a contemporary of Chaplin\, Keaton\, and Langdon: Charley Bowers (1889-1946). This creator of idiosyncratic\, slapstick live-action and animated shorts was rediscovered in the late 1960s by archivist Raymond Borde of the Toulouse Cinematheque; his films took on “a disorderly life of their own obeying nothing but the logic of dreams” (R. Borde).\nOri Levin (Postdoctoral Scholar in Silent Film at the Visual Studies Research Institute\, USC\, Faculty Member at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television) will present Bowers’ innovative work and tell you more about his use of gizmos\, gears\, and animation to create a world greatly admired by the likes of André Breton and his surrealist circle.\nNir Evron’s film-essay\, BELATED MEASURES\, is based on never publicly shown before 16mm film materials\, found at the LEHI Archives. The LEHI was an underground para-military organization operating in Palestine during the British Mandate. Evron shares his reflections and speculations about the relationship between war and photography\, documentary and propaganda\, visual traces and destruction. Ran Tal\, award-winning documentary filmmaker and Head of the MFA Documentary Film Program at the Tisch Film School in Tel Aviv University\, will be in conversation with Nir after the screening.\nUlrike Ottinger started her career as an artist\, turning to cinema – both documentary and fiction – in the late 1960s. Her work combines fantasy and ethnography\, adding a splash of extravagant aesthetics\, humor\, and a total aversion to conventions. Yael Mazor\, PhD candidate and lecturer at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University\, will provide more background information regarding Ottinger’s work. Her research focuses on German cinema through the prisms of history\, memory\, and film historiography.\nLast but not least\, online at the Festival website\, we’ll be offering three of the striking\, thought-provoking lectures that Laurie Anderson prepared for the prestigious Norton Series at Harvard University. SPENDING THE WAR WITHOUT YOU is far from the concept of ‘talking heads’ – she proposes a combination of virtual backgrounds\, mixing history\, art\, film\, animation\, music\, Brian Eno\, Freud\, and more. Her themes for each hour-long talk are The River\, The Forest\, and Rocks. “I will try to tell you what I know about music and life\,” she says\, and it is certainly worthwhile listening to!\nWe sincerely hope you will be happy to be in this year’s festival mode\, whatever it may be!\nVivian Ostrovsky and Sala-Manca URL:https://mamuta.org/event/intersections-at-jff-2021/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/public_storage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20201210T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20201220T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T033009 CREATED:20260415T133701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T134139Z UID:14865-1607587200-1608483600@mamuta.org SUMMARY:Intersections at JFF 2020 DESCRIPTION:Boredom\nDir.: Avishai Sivan | 5 minutes \nA 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. \nFilling Spaces\nDir.: Shachar Kantor | 15 minutes \nWithin 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. \nJunkerhaus\nDir.: Karen Russo | 8 minutes \nJunkerhaus 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. \nMen Are Wild Beasts\, You Are Not Like Them\nDir.: Yehonatan Milo Levitas | 3 minutes \nMen 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. \nPower\nDir.: Haviv Kaptzon | 14 minutes \nA 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. \nShomer\nDir.: Dor Zlekha Levy | 9 minutes \nShomer 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. URL:https://mamuta.org/event/intersections-at-jff-2020/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mamuta.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/power.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR