The new course of the The Social-Economic Academy:
Life challenges in the globalized society
Tuesday, October 30 at 20:15 the first lecture:
Dr. Diego Olstein will talk about
The History of globalization from the 16th century
Admission: 15 NIS
Wednesday October 31st 2007, 1:07 pm
On Monday October 29 at 20:00
Evening dedicated to the first issue of
Sedek Magazine
Published by Zochrot, Parrhesia, Pardes Publishing House
Sedek [”Fissure”] is the opening of a public space for literature, art, and critical writing that will connect between the forgotten recesses of 1948 and present life in Israel, between the opening of a fissure in the impermeable walls of consciousness and the possibilities for another kind of life in the Middle Eastern space. from Zochrot website
The Evening Programme:
Tamar Avraham will speak about the Palestinian neighbourhoods of Jerusalem in 1948
Yonatan Mizrachi will speak about archeology, ideology, and politics
Tomer Gardi will tell the story of one history museum that was built with the stones of a destroyed village
Hillel Cohen will speak about Jewish refugees of the 1948 war
Saturday October 27th 2007, 10:57 pm
On Friday October 19 the new exhibition was opened in Barbur - painting exhibition by two young artists Shai Yehezkelli and Ran Keydar.
The exhibition is open during our usual hours: Sun, Mon, Tues and Thur from 14:00 till 20:00 and Fr from 11:00 till 14:00 and it will be on show till November 16.
Saturday October 27th 2007, 9:11 pm
On Thursday October 25 at 20:30
screening of video works by Cheb Kammerer and Sharon Horodi:
Black Stains
he criticism of the artmarket and the related machinery raises the question about social and political values of art. Is art capable to provide the instruments for a radical review of the society? And how to be radical at all in the context of art without becoming an integral part of what we oppose?
With these questions in mind, we started to work on this film…
The Colony
The Colony describes the collaps of an imaginary society, wherein homelessness became the societal default.
Facing their weak condition, the leaders are putting all effort on outward defence. The situation inside deteriorates.
The colony is no longer a suitable space for regular living conditions.
The work refers to an envirionmental phaenomenon called “Colony Collapse Disorder”.
This syndrom describes the sudden mass exodus of adult honey bees from their hive, leaving their queen, food stores and the young behind.
Blind Spots
lind Spots is entirely set on a neglected Muslim graveyard, a “blind spot” in the urban landscape of Tel Aviv. A child plays his games berween the tombstones and ruins. He creates his inner imaginary world, where he encounters ghosts and fights dragons. But the dreamlike atmosphere is interrupted and disturbed by nightmarish scenes. The film conveys these ruins not only as thresholds between present and past but also as gateway to a new kind of future. It draws our attention to the paradoxes embedded in the ruins in relation to seeing and blindness, memory and forgetting.
Simply a Love Song
Simply A Love Song was made in August 2006 when war between Israel and Lebanon hit its peak. During a demonstration against the war the atmosphere heated up, passerby started to lose temper.
Despite our seemingly documentary working method this video display a subjective point of view, that does not intend to be objective.
(2006, 36′) Birth Mark (Mutterfleck)
Ketem Leida / Mutterfleck (engl. Birthmark) follows the stories of two different places: a small town (Kleinstadt) in Germany and a village (Moshav) in Israel. The plot goes back and forth between present and past, between personal recollections and collective rituals. The narrations of the two stories are sometimes contrasting and sometimes complementing eachother. The film starts with an allegedly innocent gaze upon two communities, celebrating traditional holidays: the Jewish holiday of Shavuot in Israeland the “Corpus Christ” procession in Germany. An entire mosaic of human relations is woven into the film, showing people occupied with various activities: plastering, carving, sculpting painting and tatooing.The further the film moves forward, these occupations turn into symbolic acts. The scenes loose their innocence.
Tuesday October 23rd 2007, 12:59 am
Sunday October 21st 2007, 2:46 pm
On Thursday October 18 at 20:30
screening of Sarit Haymian’s Documentary film
GOLE SANGAM – THE STONE FLOWER.
Following the lives of Ilanit, Simcha and Na’ima – three elderly Iranian-Israeli women living in the Tel-Aviv neighborhood of Hatikva (literally hope). The film explores their arranged marriages and the oppression they suffered. Life has taken each of the protagonists to a different place: Simcha, twice widowed, lives alone for the last 30 years; Ilanit still dreams of love, but lives with an oppressive husband; and Na’ima, who has enjoyed a good relationship for the last 50 years, surrounded by her many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Now, for the first time, the three dare to fulfill some of their youthful dreams - acting, dancing and singing in the neighborhood’s old folks center. Three strong women, still very vigorous, who in spite of their hardships have never stopped dreaming.
After the screening we will meet the producer Osnat Trabelsi.
Saturday October 13th 2007, 6:36 pm
Sunday October 07th 2007, 8:33 pm
