"47 Years of Documentation"

A talk/visual presentation by Israeli documentary filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz:

Celebrated Israeli filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (The Law in These Parts) comes to do Duke to give an archival presentation, 47 years of Documentation. This event/talk is structured around a sequence of archive footage segments collected by Alexandrowicz, all shot over the last 5 decades in the city of Hebron.

It starts with the cinema newsreels of the late 60's, continues with the public television of the 70's and 80's, the long form documentary films of the 90's and runs all the way till the viral Youtube clips of today. What the journey through archives of different periods and formats allows, is not only to visually tell the story of the city and its transformation in the last half century, but to focus on the documentation of the occupation as a phenomenon, to look at the way the documentation itself has evolved during this period of time and to raise questions about the relationship and affect between political and social reality and its documentation.

-- Q&A to follow w/ filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz!

About the Filmmaker:

Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (writer, researcher, director) carved name recognition as writer and director of award-winning films such as the full-length feature James’ Journey to Jerusalem (Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2003, Toronto 2003), and the documentaries The Inner Tour (Berlin 2001, Sundance 2001), and Martin (Berlin 1999, New Directors, New Films 1999, MoMA permanent collection). Ra'anan's critically-acclaimed works have been theatrically-released to international audiences and broadcast worldwide. 

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Duke Center for Jewish Studies (CJS) and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).