Red Lounge Special

Screening, Lecture and Discussion

Sat, 17.1.2009 at 5:00pm (17:00)

“Forgiveness”

A film by Udi Aloni

With an Introductory Lecture by Prof. Alain Badiou

Udi Aloni’s projects in films and in visual arts always explore the fascinating discourse that takes place between theology and politics. In all of his activities is a strong voice in promoting justice, peace, solidarity and love between Israel and Palestine. His movies and visual art projects have been presented in various leading museums, galleries, and film festivals, among them the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Berlin, Toronto, and Buenos Aires film festivals.

Prof. Alain Badiou, *1937 in Rabat/Marocco is Professor of Philosophy at the E’cole Normale Supe’rieure, Paris. He is author of the acclaimed “The political as a procedure of truth” and “High speculative reasoning on the concept of democracy”. He is one of the most important and controversial continental philosophers of today.

Forgiveness by Udi Aloni, 2006, 97 min, *English

official website: www.forgivenessthefilm.com

Udi Aloni’s film “Forgiveness”/תוליחמ is a psycho-political thriller about David, a young American Jew who finds himself caught between three ‘fathers,’ two nations, two compelling women, and a mysterious ghost. He joins the Israeli army, only to discover that he has been committed to a mental institution built on the ruins of a Palestinian village. The Muselmann, a Holocaust survivor committed to the hospital, tries to save David from his horrifying fate by communicating with the ghosts of the murdered villagers. Are the voices real?
Can David escape from the eternal recurrence by controlling his destiny? Or will he find that, whatever he does, his destiny is always-already in the past?

Watch trailer on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQCfLZrJPU

Prof. Alain Badiou on “Forgiveness”

“What this film tells us, its Idea, is in no way a political thesis in the current sense of the term. The truth is inscribed, here, in art. The truth is an effect of art. The film shows in the same shot what is, what might have been, and what should be. What is: separation, war and violence. What might have been: shared love of place as powerful universal value, combining heterogeneous elements in an unprecedented music (music and dance, in Udi Aloni’s film, speak from the interior of what is to attest for what might have been). And finally what should be: a new declaration that would allow to start again, and which the title of the film, “Forgiveness”, recapitulates"

read more at: www.lacan.com/symptom/?p=56

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Sat, 17.1.2009 | Open doors from 17:00 pm
The screening starts 17:30pm

Location:
Red Lounge in the Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem
22, Ein Rogel St, J'lem ( Abu Tor )