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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241206T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241206T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044733
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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
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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
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DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044733
CREATED:20250109T132653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T100322Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241030T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241030T213000
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CREATED:20250109T142120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T100901Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20241022T190000
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240908T210000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240908T233000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044733
CREATED:20250110T090133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T101107Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240827T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240827T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044733
CREATED:20250110T095651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T101220Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240806T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240806T203000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044733
CREATED:20250513T135353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T101315Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240718T080000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20240728T170000
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CREATED:20251119T131821Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20230713T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20230723T220000
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CREATED:20251202T144413Z
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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/
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DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20220717T170000
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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/
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20201210T080000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20201220T170000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20190725T080000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20190804T170000
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SUMMARY:Intersections at JFF 2019
DESCRIPTION:INTERSECTIONS is a haven for those seeking escape from the conventions of narrative and documentary film. \nThe Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards focuses on cinema as personal expression and explores the innovative\, freewheeling edges of the moving image. \nNow in its 15th year\, the competition presents 8 selections drawn from 100 entries. Prizes totaling NIS 25\,000. are funded by the Ostrovsky Family Fund and by Rivka Saker\, in memory of Lia van Leer. \nGuest curator Federico Rossin introduces two programs of Polish films from the 1970s\, selected to draw attention to issues that resonate today. \nThe Vanished World showcases how experimental filmmakers in early sixties approached the Holocaust and the disappearance of Jewish life in Poland. \nFilm Form Studio films spotlight a group of dissident film and art students\, active between 1970 and 1977\, who\, disenchanted by the Łódź Film School’s curriculum\, developed their own approach to illuminating complicated topics. This echoes discussions currently taking place in Jerusalem. \nJonas Mekas\, who Jim Jarmusch described as ‘the poet’s version of Kung Fu Master\,’ will be saluted with a screening of his masterwork Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972). Preceding it will be his rarely screened short\, Notes on the Circus (1966)\, a proverbial tutorial on his signature\, edited-in-camera balancing act. \nPéter Forgács and Jay Rosenblatt pair in a program that investigates memory\, time and displaced histories. Forgács’ Venom(2016) was awarded first prize in the Loop video art fest in Barcelona. Rosenblatt’s Claustrum (2014) evokes an immersive twilight zone that prompts reflections on the end of an era. \nMamuta Art and Research Center will host an installation by Eiv Kristal and Nurit Dreamer. They will transform Mamuta’s distinctive spaces into reflections of their autobiographic fantasies. \nINTERSECTIONS explores how inventive applications of cinematic magic tap memory\, reflect history and induce revelation.
URL:https://mamuta.org/event/intersections-at-jff-2019/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20180726T080000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20180805T170000
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SUMMARY:Intersections at JFF 2018
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Intersections offers 5 different programs\, all\, as always\, in the sphere of experimentation and curiosity. \nThe 14th Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards showcase\, dialogue\, and celebrate with contemporary art practices. A determined selection committee went through more than 80 films to choose an unconventional\, well-crafted final program of 6 films by local artists. \nTwo programs by Latin American artists focus on themes of art under dictatorship\, memory\, war\, and abuse of power. \n The Mamuta Art and Research Center will present a 5-channel video installation by Lola Arias whose related film was shown in the Berlinale this year. Arias\, a renowned Argentinian writer\, theater and film director and performer uses reenactments with traumatized soldiers to evoke the Falklands war 30 years later. \nBrazil: Breaking Boundaries\, features four pioneering women artists (Analivia Cordeiro\, Anna Bella Geiger\, Anamaria Maiolino\, and Leticia Parente)\, of the 1970s who worked in moving images under the military government’s authoritarian rule. The result is eminently political\, subversive and often ironic. \n Akira Ikeda’s Ambiguous Places finds its place with the Avant-Garde. Its wackiness\, wickedness\, and wit will charm or unsettle audiences. \n James Benning’s almost silent Readers might be a writer’s favorite? A lesson in stillness and observation. \n\nVivian Ostrovsky & Sala-Manca
URL:https://mamuta.org/event/intersections-at-jff-2018/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20140714T194500
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20140714T204500
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SUMMARY:Chantal Akerman: Ma mère rit
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday 15/7 19:00 internationally acclaimed cinematographer and artist Chantal Akerman will open a new exhibition at Mamuta Art and Media Center at Hansen House\, in collaboration with the Screen Based Department – Bezalel Art Academy and in the frame of Intersections – Jerusalem Film Festival.Please Join Us\nFree Entrance. \nReading – Performance\, from the book Ma mère rit (My Mother Laughs) at 19:45.
URL:https://mamuta.org/event/chantal-akerman-ma-mere-rit/
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