Screenings at Barbur

Israeli documentary film series

Avenge But One of My Two Eyes

A film by Avi Mograbi, 2005

Series editor - Omri Laron
Free entrance

New Exhibition Opening

We are pleased to invite you to the opening event of a new exhibition

Foreign bodies

Group Exhibition by Alina and Jeff Bliumis, Irina Danilova, Yevgeniya Baras, Vydavy Sindikat

Curator: Yevgeniya Baras

Curatorial Statement:
We first “make Other” by seeing, by encountering physically. Looking at the body, we begin to categorize it. Othering is one of the first steps to identifying the self; one learns who she is in relation to/ against another. It’s a method of self-identification, a construction of roles, a learning of boundaries. But it is also a way to discriminate, stigmatize, demonize, condemn. We exoticise, eroticize, fetishize and objectify what seems foreign. The process of making other applies to female bodies, ethnic bodies, queer bodies, immigrant bodies. It’s a mode of exclusion and alienation, of fascination tempered by disgust, a desire covered over by fear.

We first “make Other” by seeing, by encountering physically. Looking at the body, we begin to categorize it. Othering is one of the first steps to identifying the self; one learns who she is in relation to/ against another. It’s a method of self-identification, a construction of roles, a learning of boundaries. But it is also a way to discriminate, stigmatize, demonize, condemn. We exoticise, eroticize, fetishize and objectify what seems foreign. The process of making other applies to female bodies, ethnic bodies, queer bodies, immigrant bodies. It’s a mode of exclusion and alienation, of fascination tempered by disgust, a desire covered over by fear.

The artists and the curator are living and working in New York.

Surprise Wire-tappings

Two performances

Lior Pinsky
Mordi Hakak
Horesh Ram (Cello, Guitars, Bağlama, Accordion, Glockenspiel) .

A new show that combines songs, sound poetry, folk music, concrete music and experimental music. texts and stories that deal with the colliding of values, melodies and songs from the folk music field and minimal arrangements for acoustical instruments.

Dance in the gallery

Dance in the gallery

A dance series at Barbur Gallery

Series editor: Rachel Zohar

Dance in the Gallery creates a meeting between dance, music, and the visual arts, between creators from different fields and dancers. The gallery space offers an intimate exposé of the movement of the dance, and opens the possibility of communication between the performer and the spectator.ance on the movement of the dance, and opens a possibility of a communication between the performer and the spectator.

The series is a collaboration between Choreographers Association, Jerusalem Foundation and Barbur Gallery.

Surprise Wire-tappings

Two performances

Pedestrians have the right of way
for three recorded celli and electronic sounds
Dan Weinstein - Cello
Amnon Wolman

Wither do you go home
For Cello and Electronics
Amos Elkana

Two Poems to Polly
for a speaking cellist
Peter Eotvos

Screenings at Barbur

Israeli cinema series

The Wooden Gun

A film by Ilan Moshenson, 1979

Fascinating coming of age drama, which received a wide critical acclaim, set during first years of the State of Israel. Story of the conflict of two groups of children affected by “war games” of adults, during the austerity period in Tel Aviv in the early ’50s.
Series editor: Raya Brukental

Dance in the gallery

Dance in the gallery

A dance series at Barbur Gallery

Series editor: Rachel Zohar

Dance in the Gallery creates a meeting between dance, music, and visual arts, between creators from different fields and dancers. Gallery space offers an exposed and intimate glance on the movement of the dance, and opens a possibility of a communication between the performer and the spectator.

The series is a collaboration between Choreographers Association, Jerusalem Foundation and Barbur Gallery.

Surprise Wire-tappings

Two performances

Eran Elisha (NY) - Percussion
Nori Yakobi - Viola
Ido Bukelman - Banjo, Guitar

Guest editor Ido Bukelman

together with:
Lavinia Cascone, Noa Zamir - Dance
Adaya Godlevsky - Celtic Harp
Yiftah Kadan - Guitar
Illi Adato - Percussion & Electronics

Artist talk with Zvi Tolkovsky in the exhibition “Everything Forbidden”

The exhibition features works from the last decades, with a connecting theme that is more intuitive then chronological.
Tolkovsky’s imagery derives from a variety of sources that mix pop-culture, historical documents and art history into one melting pot. At first glance his works seem to be playful and chaotic, but a closer look reveals a multi-layered and intricate world.

You are invited to talk with the artist about his work.

Screenings at Barbur

Israeli cinema series

The House at Chelouche Street

A film by Moshe Mizrachi, 1973

Series editor: Raya Brukental

Screenings at Barbur

Israeli documentary film series

The Dreamers

A film by Efrat Shalom Danon

An orthodox teacher and a wigmaker, Ruchama and Tikva, embark on a journey to fulfill their dream of making movies within the closed society in which they live. Ruchama is writing and producing her first film while Tikva prepares for her first acting role. Like other orthodox women who in recent years have started making films for strictly female audiences, they feel a strong need to express themselves despite strict rabbinical censorship. The Dreamers delicately sketches the portrait of women trying to break new ground as artists in a patriarchal world. Will they find freedom in their art?

After the screening there will be a conversation with the director Efrat Shalom Danon and Marlin Venig, a woman cinematographer and theatre person who recently published a book on the Haredi cinema with Resling Publishers, on the fascinating process of making the movie.

Free entrance

Surprise Wire-tappings

Giovanni Lami (Electronics/Italy)

Surprise Wire-tappings

Wade Matthews (Electronics / USA-Portugal)

will play with:

Tom Soloveitzik (Saxophone)
Ayelet Lerman (Viola)

Roundtable with Louise Bethlehem

Local Color

Roundtable on the Hebrew translation of “Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and Its Aftermath” by Louise Bethlehem

We are proud to present a roundtable of authors and scholars who will discuss various facets of the book and of the phenomenon of apartheid that stands at its core.

In her volume Skin Tight, recently translated into Hebrew, literary scholar Louise Bethlehem deciphers the rhetoric of urgency of South African literature under apartheid, in a discussion that ranges between literature and witness as it oscillates between here—Israel, and there—South Africa, and back again.

Participants:
Louise Bethlehem: Literature. Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and in the Program in Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in the Inter-University Program in African Studies. She has published widely on South African literature, J.M. Coetzee, and postcolonial theory.
Omri Grinberg: A graduate of the Program in Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Formerly, a journalist and music critic. Currently, teaches in the Program in Culture – Creation and Production at Sapir College.
Yiftach Ashkenazi: Author and scholar. His most recent book, Persona Non Grata, was published in Hebrew in 2010 (Hargol and Am Oved). He writes literary criticism for Ma’ariv.
Moran Benit: Doctoral Student in the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her doctorate explores the early writing of Micha Yosef Berdichevsky.
Yakir Englander: A researcher in the Scholion Program of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Director of kids4peace, an inter-denominational peace program. His book, The New Religious Zionist Body, co-authored with Avi Sagi, is due to appear in the spring of 2012.

*The Hebrew version of the book, translated by Oded Wolkstein, was published by Resling in 2011

Free entrance

Screenings at Barbur

Israeli cinema series

Chta Yisbach Sbach
(Until Tomorrow Comes)

A film by David Deri, 2004

Series editor: Raya Brukental

Further screening (in two weeks):

Screenings at Barbur

Israeli documentary film series

The Law In These Parts

A film by Ra’anan Alexandrowicz and Liran Atzmor

Since Israel conquered the territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 war, the military has imposed thousands of orders and laws, established military courts, sentenced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, enabled half a million Israeli “settlers” to move to the Occupied Territories and developed a system of long-term jurisdiction by an occupying army that is unique in the entire world.
The men entrusted with creating this new legal framework were the members of Israel’s military legal corps. Responding to a constantly changing reality, these legal professionals have faced (and continue to face) complex judicial and moral dilemmas in order to develop and uphold a system of long-term military “rule by law” of an occupied population, all under the supervision of Israel’s Supreme Court, and, according to Israel, in complete accordance with international law.
The Law In These Parts explores this unprecedented and little-known story through testimonies of the military legal professionals who were the architects of the system and helped run it in its formative years. The film attempts to ask some crucial questions that are often skirted or avoided: Can such an occupation be achieved within a legal framework that includes genuine adherence to the principals of rule-of-law? Should it? What are the costs that a society engaged in such a long term exercise must bear? And what are the implications of the very effort to make a documentary film about such a system?

Producer: Liran Atzmor
B.Z Goldberg (Co-Producer), Laura Poitras (Co-producer, USA), Martin Hagemann (Co-producer, Germany)
Cinematographer: Shark De Mayo
Editor: Neta Dvorkis
Composer: Karni Postel

Series editor - Omri Laron
Free entrance

Surprise Wire-tappings

Birgit Ulher (Trumpet / Germany)

will play with:

Ofer Bymel (Percussion)
Ariel Shibolet and Adi Snir (Saxophones)
Ayelet Lerman (Viola)

Introduction meeting with a group of street theater Tatata

Introduction meeting with a group of street theater Tatata

Inviting new members
Tatata group opens its doors to new and innovative artists!

Like to create?
Like to renew and paint the Jerusalem street with something alive and intriguing?
Unique street theater group that operates by supervision of the giant puppet master, Adam Yakin, is inviting new artists with vision, good hands and the joy of life to join its ranks (no previous experience required).
For more information: Yael 052-4483414, Adam 054-6104911

New Exhibition Opening

We are pleased to invite you to the opening event of a new exhibition

Everything that forbidden

Exhibition by Zvi Tolkovski

Curator: Elad Rosen

Wire-tappings

Ilan Volkov
Yael Barolsky
Ram Gabay

Dance Wire

Ofer Bymel - Percussion
Elad Bardes - Guitar
Avigail Sfez, Sharon Attinson - Dance

Dance in the gallery

Dance in the gallery

A dance series at Barbur Gallery

Series editor: Rachel Zohar

Dance in the Gallery creates a meeting between dance, music, and visual arts, between creators from different fields and dancers. Gallery space offers an exposed and intimate glance on the movement of the dance, and opens a possibility of a communication between the performer and the spectator.

The series is a collaboration between Choreographers Association, Jerusalem Foundation and Barbur Gallery.

Screenings at Barbur

Israeli cinema series

Sh’Chur

A film by Shmuel Hasfari and Hana Azoulay-Hasfari, 1994

Series editor: Raya Brukental

Further screening (in two weeks):

New Exhibition Opening

We are pleased to invite you to the opening event of a new exhibition

Muhammad Julani’s Pigeons

Work by Matan Israeli in cooperation with pigeon grower Muhammad Julani

Screenings at Barbur

Israeli cinema series

Fortuna

Menachem Golan, 1966

Series editor: Raya Brukental

Further screening (in two weeks):

Performance by the ensemble “Waset el-Tariq”

Closing event of the exhibition “Marking the Market”

Performance by the ensemble “Waset el-Tariq”
Local music that warms the heart

Oud - Muhammad Dahayka
Flute and ney - Sharon Shaabi
Darbouka and vocals - Samer Abu Pseysa
Accordion and vocals - Daniela Futterman

Surprise Wire-tappings

Shaul Bustan (Berlin / Guitar)
Nitai Levi (Bass Clarinet)

Shaul Bustan (composer-performer). Multi - talented Composer, Conductor, Performer and teacher, only twenty-eight already behind a rich biography which includes writing music for the most important orchestras and ensembles in Israel (Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, Meitar Ensemble and more), establishment of a conservatory in a distress neighborhood in Jerusalem, performing on Israel important stages and more. Bustan holds a Master’s degree in Composition, Conducting and Mandolin Performance from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

Nitai Levi plays clarinet since age 7. He studied at the conservatory and high school of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, where he continued his higher studies. Nitai played in various experimental music venues and jazz festivals in Israel and abroad, and recorded with The Yellow Submarine Ensemble, Ensemble 105, Camillion Trio, and Yoni Krechmer Quartet.

Oriental-Arabic feminist film festival

Opening evening of the Oriental-Arabic feminist film festival

“Sh’Chur” (1994), a film by Shmuel Hasfari and Hana Azoulay-Hasfari

Intra-generational cultural tensions between three women from one family, immersed in magic and mysticism

Meeting with the film director and actress Hana Azoulay-Hasfari after the screening

For the full festival program in Hebrew click here
For the full festival program in Arabic click here

Wire-tappings #24

Ido Govrin:

New album release: The Revisit

Dan Weinstein:

Two Poems for Polly for speaking cellist by Péter Eötvös it

Dganit Elyakim:

“Re’afim” for Cello and Electronics

Ido Govrin is a sound artist who investigates the realms of aesthetics and plastic art through sound beings. His work includes film music, sound for intermedia installations and computer generated pieces. He is co-running the experimental record label, Interval Recordings, as well as being half of Duprass.

Dan Weinstein is a Cellist, lecturer and teacher. He is a graduate from the Rubin academy of music in Tel aviv and the “Ecole normale de musique”, Paris. As a versatile musician he performs as soloist, in chamber music and new music ensembles and participates regularly in different projects combining dance, theatre and improvised music.

Dganit Elyakim is a composer and sound artist.er Avital. Shai is a leading bass player and is taking part in various productions, concerts and festivals.

Screenings at Barbur

Israeli cinema series

Siege

Gilberto Tofano, 1969

Series editor: Raya Brukental

Further screenings (every two weeks):

Dudu Geva - the last interview

Dudu Geva - the last interview

Interview: Dov Alfon
Production: Shaul Betzer, Erez Heiman and Roy Chicky Arad

Surprise Wire-tappings

Ehran Elisha (New-York / Percussion)
together with:

J.C.Jones (Double Bass)
Herold Rubin (Clarinet)
Ido Bukelman (Guitar)
Shai Ran (Double Bass)

Ehran Elisha has been an important and prominent avant-garde jazz musician in the United States for over two decades, performing and recording in New York, leading several ensembles including some of the best musicians on the scene. He has been noted as one of the most exciting and original drummers playing this music, and has released six albums of his music, including two discs that came out this year on the new Israeli label OutNowRecordings.

Harold Rubin Jazz musician, artist, teacher, and architect, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1932. Studied classical clarinet. Formed jazz quartet in South Africa and was responsible for organizing communication between black and white musicians for some years before he immigrated to Israel in 1963. In 1986 formed Zaviot quartette with Mark Smulian, playing original music, which received the prize at Eilat Festival 1987. The group performed in festivals and jazz clubs in Europe in 1988/9. He has developed various groups performing in all major festivals in Israel. He has started working with Mark Smulian again on their own new music. 6 albums of his music have been released and he has taken part in others as a guest. He performs in Europe, U.S.A and South Africa and is one of the founders of the Tel Aviv Art Ensemble and still works with the group. Harold was awarded the Landau prize for the performing arts in 2007.

Jean Claude Jones By the time he emigrated to Israel, Jean Claude Jones had developed a jazz career in France and the US, having played in jazz bands since a young age and having studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Music Institute of Technology in LA. As a double bass player he became involved in free improvised music since the 1980’s. Over time he added electronics and computer-manipulated sounds to his musical arsenal. JC Jones served as chair of the Jazz Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. He has performed and recorded with many leading international and Israeli musicians, dancers, poets and vocal artists, including Stan Getz, Joelle Leandre and Avishai Cohen. JC Jones’s current projects include the Excited Strings duo with cellist Yuval Mesner, Between the Strings trio with viola player Nori Jacoby and violinist Daniel Hoffman, DoubleTake duo with pianist Ariel, Deep Tones for Peace international telematic internet all basses project, and the Myelin project. The driving force behind JC’s work is “finding one’s space.”

Shai Ran is a double bass player. Born in Haifa, Israel in 1978. Currently living in Tel Aviv. Graduated from the Jerusalem Music academy under Dr. Michael Klinghoffer and Omer Avital. Shai is a leading bass player and is taking part in various productions, concerts and festivals.

Ido Bukelman born in 1981, lives in Jerusalem, Israel. Ido plays in a variety of highly creative musical projects as a leader and as a sideman. Ido Bukelman’s first CD “City Tail” was recorded as a trio, and released 2009. Subsequently, Ido toured in Russia (March 2009) and Turkey in the framework of the “Ankara International Jazz Festival” (February 2010). The CD “Cracked Song” features the trio with the addition of cellist and composer Yuval Mesner. Ido has recently been focusing on solo (acoustic guitar) playing, and is currently exploring the use of refined extended techniques and sounds. He has so far released 5 Cd`s under his own name.

Screenings at Barbur

Israeli cinema series

Woman’s Case

Jacques Katmor, 1969

An advertising executive meets a young and beautiful fashion model at a trendy dance club. He imagines her to be attracted to women, fantasizing about them in an amorous romantic embrace. Helit Katmor plays the fiery model while Yosi Spector is the frustrated executive who can’t seem to get anything right. The two go off together and he contemplates killing her because he knows she will eventually leave him.
Series editor: Raya Brukental

Further screenings (every two weeks):

Wire-tappings#23

Hybrid Spectrums

Emmanuel Witzthum (sound) and Arik Futterman (video) (Percussion)

About the project:
We went out to the streets of Jerusalem in otder to collect field recordings of synagogues’ prayers, mosques and churches around town. With the recordings we’ve created together a collage of the prayers – Jewish, Muslim and Christian meeting and mixing through and by Jerusalemic church bells. The melodies and tones create together a hybrid spectrum of the longing of Jerusalem of below to Jerusalem of above.

New Exhibition Opening

We are pleased to invite you to the opening event of a group exhibition

Marking the Market

Photography exhibition of participants from the photo workshop of Mahane Yehuda market merchants

The workshop was supervised by Wendy Ewald (USA), Bizi Goldberg, and Ronit Porat.

Et la Shinui #5

Dance in the gallery #7

Dance in the gallery

Out of 2nd Choice - Fragments of borrowed essence.
Choreography: Dafi Altabeb
Dancer and creative collaborator: Rosalind Noctor

Zov
Choreographer: Anat Yaffe
Dancers: Alon Karniel and Anat Yaffe

Puddle
Choreographer and dancer: Anat Yaffe

Series editor: Rachel Zohar
Dance in the Gallery creates a meeting between dance, music, and visual arts, between creators from different fields and dancers. Gallery space offers an exposed and intimate glance on the movement of the dance, and opens a possibility of a communication between the performer and the spectator.

The series is a collaboration between Choreographers Association, Jerusalem Foundation and Barbur Gallery.