Any visit to Jerusalem heightens my awareness of history, walking through the city I feel like a wanderer through visible layers of time. On my most recent trip, to see the renovated Israel Museum, I had the privilege of seeing history in the making, as the buildings and grounds were being prepared for the inauguration of the renewed campus scheduled to take place tomorrow, July 26, 2010.
As of last Wednesday, the museum campus still resembled a construction site, with heavy machinery, taped up glass and the large mounds of earth …
Celebrating its 10th birthday, the International Animation Comics Caricature Festival is taking on an expanded, 5 day program, and a shorter name – Animix! The festival will take place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque from August 17 – 21. Hundreds of animated films will be screened at the festival, which also includes workshops, master classes, exhibits, lectures and activities for children.
Jerusalem animator and illustrator Yossi Abulafia will be the keynote guest of the festival and an exhibit of his caricatures will be on display. Abulafia has written 11 books, illustrated 140, …
Take a bus, train, or bicycle, but find your way to the Haifa Theatre to experience Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favor – because this rarely performed play, featuring Norman Issa, Doron Tavory and the Ra’anana Symphony Orchestra, in a brilliant translation by Dori Parnes, has an all too short run. There is one more performance tomorrow night, July 26, and 4 more next month – August 23 – 26th. If you really can’t bear to leave Tel Aviv, there will be two performances at the Tel Aviv Performing …
Animation lovers – if you didn’t make it to Stuttgart or Annecy this year, don’t fret. ASIFA Israel (Association Internationale du Film d’Animation) in collaboration with the Goethe Institute Tel Aviv presents an evening of animated films this Tuesday, July 27 at 19:00 at the Goethe Institute, 4 Weizman Street, Tel Aviv.
The program will include noteworthy films screened at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (May 4 – 9, 2010). Many of these films are not scheduled to be shown in Israel, so this is a great opportunity to experience …
Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at MoMA, New York, and Marta Gili, Director of the Jeu de Paume, Paris, were in Israel to talk about photography at SIP Encounter #1. Organized by the Shpilman Institute, an organization dedicated to providing a platform for different audiences to interact and explore the diverse aspects of photography, the event took place at ZOA House in Tel Aviv on July 12, 2010.
The spirit of experimentation extended to the format of the evening itself. Mr. Galassi and Ms. Gili answered questions from the stage, while …
Well, the festival is over. I’ve reported most of the interesting films I managed to catch at the festival (no doubt there were many more I missed, as is the nature of a film festival). Below, are some odds and ends –four films I saw in the last couple of days of the festival. Three of them are new, one a classic (the first three are in English –from the U.S., Canada and England, respectively- and the last is in Thai).
In ‘The Kids Are All Right’, Jullianne Moore and Annette …
