Events

AMES Presents

FILM Screening:

 

Sept 14  Monday 7pm, Griffith  |

Khirbet Khizeh (1978)

(Director: Ram Loevy, 54 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles)

 

One of Ram Loevy's most important films is the television drama Khirbet Khizeh. Based on S. Yizhar's 1949 novella of the same name, the film portrays the violent expulsion of Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army during the 1948 Israeli-Arab war. The drama created a public uproar when it was scheduled to be shown on Israeli television just months after the Likud Party formed the ruling coalition, for the first time in Israeli history. The government tried to block the broadcast, and the film was aired only after a public uproar, only to be shelved immediately afterwards for some 15 years and bring about the temporary closure of the drama department at the State run Israeli television. The drama marks an important milestone in the emergence of critique within Israel of the role played by Israel in the conflict with Palestinians.

 

The screening will be preceded by a presentation by Mr. Loevy, who will frame the film within his lifelong engagement with bringing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the television screen; the director will also be available to answer questions following the screening.

 

The screening is co-sponsored by Brit Tzedek and Triangle Tikkun.

 

AMES Presents

FILM Screening:

 

Sept 21  Monday 7pm, Griffith  |

Z32 (2008)

(Director: Avi Mograbi, 81 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles)

 

In what he calls a "musical-documentary-tragedy," Avi Mograbi features an Israeli ex-soldier who participated in a revenge operation where several Palestinian policemen were murdered. The soldier now seeks forgiveness for what he has done, but his girlfriend does not think it is that simple, and raises issues he is not ready to address. Mograbi alternates interviews with the soldier and his girlfriend with scenes in which the director uses songs cabaret-style to comment on his own film and most conspicuously, about the ways in which documentary films both reveal and conceal their subject matter: the soldier willingly testifies for camera as long as his identity is not exposed. While the filmmaker keeps looking for the proper solution for concealing the soldier's identity he questions his own political and artistic conduct.

 

WORKSHOP:

 

Sept 22  Tuesday 7pm, Griffith  |

A Workshop with Avi Mograbi

 

Mograbi will show clips from his films and will discuss his position as a filmmaker in each and in general.

 

AMES Presents

Sept 23  Wednesday 7pm, Richard White Lecture Hall (East Campus)  |  

Conversations between Israeli Filmmakers

 

Avi Mograbi and Ram Loevy will discuss Israeli documentaries and their politics of representation.

 

Respondents: Rebecca Stein, Yaron Shemer, Shai Ginsburg

 

WORKSHOP:

 

Oct 12  Monday 7pm, White 107 Lecture Hall (East Campus)  |

A Workshop with Ram Loevy

 

Mr. Loevy will show clips from his films and discuss his position as a filmmaker in each and in general.

 

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