Red Lounge

Screening and Discussion with the film-maker

Tuesday, 17.3.2009 at 7:00pm (19:00)

“Avenge but One of My Two Eyes”
נקם אחת משתי עיני

A movie by Avi Mograbi

"Transmission will be accomplished by cinema rather than by war. " (Cahiers du Cinema: "The Cinema of Avi Mograbi")

This controversial documentary by renowned Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi draws a parallel between the Israeli - Palestinian situation today and the myths of Samson and Masada.
Mograbi makes provocative comparisons between Israeli's deep-rooted identification with these stories and contemporary Palestinian suicide bombers.
He offers a powerful, at times chilling, lament to the continuing cycles of violence, rooted in the past but threatening to completely engulf everyone's future.
A believer in the power of dialogue, Mograbi is passionate in his desire to see an end to the bloodshed.

Avenge but One of My Two Eyes by Avi Mograbi, 2006,

Read also:

"Filming the Enemy. The cinema of Avi Mograbi"
An Essay by Jean-Louis Comolli
in: Cahiers du Cinema

www.cahiersducinema.com/article536.html

With the roots of so much real-world conflict left unexamined by today's restless media, this film reminds us just how vital filmmakers like Avi Mograbi are. Documentary today is rarely immersed in questions of this magnitude - or tackles them with the level of eloquence shown here by Mograbi. Avenge but One of My Two Eyes is an exceptional and challenging film, a rare event in contemporary cinema.

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Tuesady, 17.3.2009 | Open doors from 19:00 pm
The screening starts 19:30pm

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