Avi Nesher created in honor of the Jerusalem Film Festival short video provides a comparison between cinema synagogue. Interview, He explains why this is not a provocation, and what harm is harm cinema funds in all, Number on conversations with Uri Zohar states: “If the Israeli narrative hurt, Everything will crumble”
“My political identity is almost physical love for this country. I'm tied to this place like a man tied to his parents. I have endless interest in Israel, Culture, Identity. And I'm very, very careful fake nostalgia, There was once envisioned great and terrible day”.
Avi Nesher interview takes place on the occasion of the Jerusalem Film Festival – One of the major cultural events in the Israeli calendar, Sets off this weekend. This year sought Film Archive Cinematheque Salute, Which is now starting to digital preservation project in Israeli history and the history of Israeli cinema. To do this, Available in four short videos from artists archive materials. The four are documentary filmmaker Ran Tal (Watch the Movie Here), Director Moran Ifergan (Watch her film Here), Corinne animator Kitzis and Dalia Castel (Watch cancerHere) – And Avi Nesher, of course (Watch the film Here). The works will be displayed at the entrance to the screenings throughout the festival, The first play and appetizer before long movies.
You did provocation, I mean eagle. The current political climate, you know exactly what responses arise.
“No way. I do not believe provocations”, Replies Eagle. “Provocations will not survive the test of time. Art is made to deal with the time. I wanted to open a dialogue: Say a prayer each his own. Each of faith. I'm a believer (Eagle studied at high school – Aviv”V) I have tremendous respect for each person believes – As long as his belief that no violations of human rights of those who do not believe in that faith. I tried to show that Judaism is a collective prayer. Right, Can pray alone, But prayer is done quorum. So cinema”.
Why cinema, Why entertainment? Why secularism is not represented by a laboratory say, However, university study, a museum?
“Only I knew to tell about myself”, Eagle responds famous quotes one Israeli song. “Certainly there is room for all the other houses of worship – But it is my prayer house. And all the stories I tell are my, They I: I Liraz Charhi End of the World Left ', I ship Bukshtein B'hsodot’ And of course the military experiences and my studies are the basis of 'band’ And'dizngof 99′”.
“Uri Zohar fascinates me, A man who was a devout secular and observant today. A man who felt the need to believe in something. Man I love and like, A man who believed passionately in film”.
Eagle began his career as a film critic in”Ha-Aretz” And the Journal “Theater”. Last theorist practical side, And the beginning of his career as an auditor had long conversations with glamor, Calls influenced him. One of them, Zohar told him: “One day you do your own movie and I guarantee you'd play this movie”; Promise not clear how either of them ever thought to be realized.
Glow really began to repent in which sat an eagle in New York and overhauled script on a military band War of Attrition, Whose role later played Tuvia Zafir is intended envisioned glow. But he was in another world. “I was shocked repentance. I fully understand the person who replaces faith. Then I met him by chance and is reminded of his promise. I told him 'you elsewhere, I absolve you ', But Zohar said, 'You might sacked me, But I can not rid myself '. Promises should be held. Thus came the set glamor, Come visit the band backstage segment where they sing their son, Ephraim my dear '. He basically told me, 'I do not believe what you're doing, But I like you, I respect you and I give you my blessing '. It was a great tribute to a person believes a secular person, And if we can return this spirit, We can overcome the rift”.
And this divide is right in front of left. He Modernity versus orthodoxy, And it is an ongoing battle that began today and ends tomorrow. Is being conducted in Israel, in the United States, Anywhere in the world. Eagle believer in cinema's ability to nurse wounds. Not only entertain, Even not only great art show. Tell a story – And in terms of the most successful Israeli director of our generation, It is proper to tell a story most important.
The story is not just a story about a student apartment on Dizengoff, The struggle between the Indian community in the Negev development town Moroccan, Orthodox boarding school for girls, The matchmaker in Haifa Holocaust survivor or girls reveal the terrible secret of the father during the Holocaust, Or his new film, Due out in late October, About repentance. In the end, of course, All the stories are about people – But Israelis.
“In 1973, I was a research officer in M”Estate pit (After a year, the General Staff Reconnaissance”The eagle was injured and was a research officer – Aviv”V) And I saw the deathly pallor of senior officers. There was real anxiety for the fate of the country, This entity called the State of Israel. And today I cry because I see a danger to Israeli identity. Why chapels? That the cinema is a place where people gather to share a narrative, Share their story. And nation, With, Must narrative. Derived from the ethos. There is no America without Westerns. There is an Israeli story I grew up in it, love him, Respect him. This is the story of all of us. 'Band’ for example, Is an Israeli story that embraces all gender, tendency, identity”.
“Real, And so did the 'Turn Left at the End of the World', The center not only of the periphery – And just in those years, Years War of Attrition”.
So what actually changed? Why now you incensed, And against what actually?
“Establishment always tried to shape the culture. Prohibited the Jo Amar – And the Dzigan and Schumacher. Film opposed Burekas – Wolf profit and George’ Employees say, But Kishon. Including, Did not understand the Kishon – My daughter did not understand S'slah’ Is an autobiographical film. Kishon new immigrant from Hungary identifies with the new immigrant Salah returned. But now cross the lines, Now try to harm Israeli cinema. The cinema is, among the rest, One of the best weapons in the Israeli arsenal”.
Maybe dropped slightly naive believing that if only clarified the Minister of Culture funds operate transparently, She will understand her mistake and retract, Politics withdraw from the facts and evidence. I wish he was right.
“I'll give you an example”, He says, “See how the funds work transparently, And Bbrnz'aiot. The members of a great country’ Wanted to make a movie. And submitted a script to the two funds. Both did not receive it. All the pressures and requests of the most connected people from the industry who – Rainbow, Wonderful Country, Adri – Not helped. Send them long past, improvements, Upgrading and changing the script. Just when it happened, The film ("This is Sodom ') Received assistance. not before”.
Eagle believes in the power of film to bring about change. I can not describe the Obama without films like “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner”, without “Heat of the Night”, Without shows like “I Spy” and”Star Trek” They saw people of different colors work together, Even kissing.
“Film speaks to the masses, Is one, Can settle disputes. I did, houses of worship’ I do not want to talk only to those who think like me. When I make a film I did not come to preach. It would be boring. I totally know completely different points of view of my own, And respect them. The best way is to share thoughts. The moment I will explain to everyone how to live and what to think will be just like the ones that I love”.
Avi Nesher created so far 11 Israel screenwriter-film director, And several Hollywood movies. He also produces and teaches screenwriting. Big believer in the written word. Can be a great film script created a connection between the large and medium-May, But the opposite is not, He believes.
Each film is anxious to re. Afraid all day photo. The film is like a child, You want to protect him, Cultivate it. And, Even after all the successes and all the awards and accolades in the country and the world, He fears. among the rest, The director responsible not only for himself – Is the plant manager, If you like military unit, Dependent on him and his talent, And of course, all talent. Like many directors around the world, He prefers to work with people he knows, And which is reliant years.
“Each film is against all odds. Generating a band’ Been interrupted because the producer was sure would be a terrible failure here, That there is no great love story and there is no accepted conventions. At the premiere screening of "Turn Left at the End of the World’ Senior industry came to me and told me to film – 'my father, You did the 'band', The Dizengoff 99 ', Why a film about Indians and Moroccans? I told him your favor, I will try to forget this sentence '.
His next film, “Another story”, Will release at -25.10 here, He has already completed the script for the next. “I was very surprised to see how 'another story’ Ends, Find out where the characters take the story”, He admits. I reminded him the anecdote about the author asked why he was typing so fast, And said he was dead already know how the book ends. Fully understood eagle.
Has the world changed, I wonder. Are we no longer a collective Israeli Sparta at the fifties and sixties? Are we in a world of individualism, Extraction of talent, Of Capitalism, Of globalization?
“Yes. But identity remains. When France won the World Cup they wanted with flag. for this, To win first. Israel is unimaginable success story. We win. We came to win. Seventy years of success story, I and other filmmakers come to defend him. Preserve it, Keep it. Our story is part of national strength”.
Avi Nesher seeks to give artists do their jobs better, Successful; Tell us, Those assembled in the chapel for two hours in the dark, Be again this ceremony, Where the story began with the idea and was script, Magic mirror makes us more piece of this fabric, Israel.
