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Eyal Sivan (Hebrew: אייל סיון) is an Israeli documentary filmmaker, theoretician and scholar based in Paris, France.
Early life
Eyal Sivan is a Filmmaker, Writer and theoretician born in 1964 in Haifa, Israel; raised in Jerusalem; and based in Europe since 1985.
As a teenager, Sivan abandoned formal education to dedicate himself to his hobbies, which were photography and political activism.
Career
After working as a professional commercial photographer in Tel Aviv, he left Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. He now splits his time between Europe and Israel.
Known for his controversial films, Sivan has produced and directed more than a dozen political documentaries. Common State (2012), Jaffa (2009) and Route 181 (2003) won awards at various festivals.
Sivan's films are regularly exhibited in art exhibitions including Documenta, Manifesta and ICP New York. His work touches on such themes as the representation of political crime; the political use of memory; the ethics of documentary filmmaking; and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He is the founder and artistic director of the Paris-based documentary film company Momento ! and of the film distribution agency Scalpel. He created South Cinema Notebooks, a journal of cinema criticism published by the Sapir Academic College in Ashkelon.
In response to a question by Aljazeera as to why so many "progressive and anti-Zionist academics, activists, and artists" are fleeing Israel, Sivan responded: "The veil of democracy is being ripped from Israeli faces."
= Academic postings
=Professor, Amsterdam University of the Arts, Nederlands Film Academy, Nederlands
Associate Professor, Media Production, University of East London, School of Arts and Digital Industries, United Kingdom
Honorary Fellow, European Centre for Palestinian Studies, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Visiting professor, Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Visiting professor, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy
Visiting professor, Sapir Academic College, School of Sound and Visual Arts, Ashkelon, Israel
= Filmography
=2012 Common State, Potential Conversation
2009 Jaffa, the Orange's Clockwork
2007 Citizens K, the Twin Brothers
2005 Faces of the Fallen
2004 I Love You All / Aus Liebe Zum Volk (co-directed with Audrey Maurion)
2003 Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (co-directed with Michel Khleifi)
2001 On the Top of the Descent
1999 The Specialist, Portrait of a Modern Criminal
1997 Burundi, under Terror
1996 Itsembatsemba, Rwanda One Genocide Later
1995 Aqabat-Jaber, Peace with no Return?
1994 Jerusalem(s), Borderline Syndrome
1993 Itgaber, He Will Overcome – Conversations with Yeshayahou Lebowitz
1991 Israland
1990 Izkor, Slaves of Memory
1987 Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through
= Other visual works
=2012 Towards a common archive, testimonies of Zionist veterans of 1948. Multi screens video show.
2012 Montage Interdit. Berlin Documentary Forum 2 New practices across disciplines. Haus der Kulturen der Welt [www.hkw.de]
2010 Documentary moments 1 : Renaissance. Berlin Documentary Forum 1 New practices across disciplines. Haus der Kulturen der Welt
2009 Fragmented memory of spectatorship. Top 10 documentary programme IDFA Amsterdam
2008 Happy birthdays, towards a common archive – fragment 1. Multi screens video Installation
2001 Scalpel / Skalpel. (concept & artistic director) TV magazine for ARTE
1994 Jerusalem, Jerusalems. Conception and direction of a Theme evening for ARTE
1988 Progressive list for Peace. TV spots
References
External links
Official website
Eyal Sivan on culture base www.culturbase.net
The Barber Trial: Sivan vs. Finkielkraut Cabinet Magazine Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman www.cabinetmagazine.org
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Time of Favor
- Daftar perwakilan Israel untuk Film Internasional Terbaik pada Academy Award
- Eyal Sivan
- Michel Khleifi
- Sivan (disambiguation)
- Rony Brauman
- Marcel Ophuls
- Alain Finkielkraut
- List of Holocaust films
- Sivan Levy
- Documenta11
- Aqabat Jaber
