Mon, September 21, 2009 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. In what he calls a "musical-documentary-tragedy," Avi Mograbi features an Israeli ex-soldier who participated in a revenge operation where several Palestinian policemen were murdered. The soldier now seeks forgiveness for what he has done, but his girlfriend does not think it is that simple, and raises issues he is not ready to address. Mograbi alternates interviews with the soldier and his girlfriend with scenes in which the director uses songs cabaret-style to comment on his own film and most conspicuously, about the ways in which documentary films both reveal and conceal their subject matter: the soldier willingly testifies for camera as long as his identity is not exposed. While the filmmaker keeps looking for the proper solution for concealing the soldier's identity he questions his own political and artistic conduct. Contact: shaig@duke.edu

AMES Presents- FILM Screening: "Z32" (2008) Director: Avi Mograbi

When: Monday, September 21, 2009 7:00 PM - 10:00 PMWhere: Bryan Center Griffith Film TheaterMore Info
Description: In what he calls a "musical-documentary-tragedy," Avi Mograbi features an Israeli ex-soldier who participated in a revenge operation where several Palestinian policemen were murdered. The soldier now seeks forgiveness for what he has done, but his girlfriend does not think it is that simple, and raises issues he is not ready to address. Mograbi alternates interviews with the soldier and his girlfriend with scenes in which the director uses songs cabaret-style to comment on his own film and most conspicuously, about the ways in which documentary films both reveal and conceal their subject matter: the soldier willingly testifies for camera as long as his identity is not exposed. While the filmmaker keeps looking for the proper solution for concealing the soldier's identity he questions his own political and artistic conduct.Additional Cosponsor: Duke University Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC)Contact: shaig@duke.edu
Co-sponsors: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Franklin Humanities Institute, Center for Documentary Studies and Cultural AnthropologyContact Information: See descriptionCategories: International, Movie/Film