Item 2321 - Preliminaries

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ES OVNI RSC-2321

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Preliminaries

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  • 2005 (Accumulation)

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Video

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The voice of this film is that of the Israeli author S. Yizhar, who reads the first few chapters of his autobiography "Mikdamot" (“Preliminaries” or “Prefaces” in Hebrew). Director Anat Even (“Detained”/"Asurot") accompanies Yizhar's voice with her gaze, which continues it and stands against it at one and the same time. S. Yizhar describes a dramatic day in the life of infant Yizhar, (1917) a story that is a dialogue of love and reckoning with his father, with the founding generation, and the Zionist dream. Even, who sees Yizhar as a member of that founding father generation, examines this score-settling up close through purely visual means. The film traverses Israel's battered landscape, moving along its bypass roads that masquerade as the highway to Zionism, progressing and retreating in time when in fact it is stuck at the very point that Yizhar, the infant/80 year old, marked in “Mikdamot” – when the Zionist dream is simultaneously realized and shattered.

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Press: Yes; Catalogue: Yes; Itinerancies: Yes; Online archive: No; Television: No

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Permisos: premsa, catàleg, itineràncies

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      ovni-archives: Wed, June 27, 2007 1:23 pm version subtitulada en ingles contact: mec Film (Irit Neidhardt) irit@mecfilm.de, 49 251663346

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      preliminaries

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      ES_OVNI_2005_eveana001-preliminaries

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      OVNI

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      Language(s)

      • Catalan

      Script(s)

      • Latin

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      copyright: mec film and Anat Even

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