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Prof. Avner Faingulernt –

Curriculum Vitae

[email protected]

Work Address: School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College

D.N. Hof Ashkelon 79165 - Israel

Tel: +972-8-680-2708

Fax: +972-8-680-2634

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Present Position: Appointed October 2001

Founder and Dean emeritus - School of Audio & Vis-

ual arts

Sapir College

http://cinema.sapir.ac.il

Founder and Director emeritus of Cinema South Fes-

tival

http://csf.sapir.ac.il

Chief editor Cinema South book

Education:

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2005 - 2009 M. Phil - PhD. Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Stud-

ies at University of East London

Dissertation topic - The Father's Return in

the Modern European Cinematic Odysseys

Director of Studies: Prof. Haim Bresheeth

Supervisors: Dr. Paul Gormley Dr. Anat

Pick

1990 - 1993 B.A.

Department of Film and Television Depart-

ment of Psychology at Tel Aviv University,

Israel

Employment History:

2001- 2017

2012 -2017

2002 -2017

2006 -2017

Dean - school of Audio & Visual Arts - Sapir College

Head of MA/MFA Film, Theory & Production Sapir

Founder and Director of Cinema South Festival

Founder & Co Editor of The Curator book- Cinema South

2011-2017 Lecture at MA program at the faculty of humanities in

Culture and Cinema, Haifa University

2013-2017 Visiting Professor FAMU Prague Documentary Department

2012 Visiting professor at Columbia University N.Y.C – Israel Jew-

ish Studies

1997- 2016 Independent producer and director

1995-1996 Documentary director for Keshet broadcast Channel 2

Areas of Teaching:

2012-2017 “Cinema of Poetry” Practice through Theory

2013-2017 “ Journey Films at the Desert” Practice through Theory

2008 - 2017 “The European Journey Films – a Lacanian reading”

2012 -2014 "Israeli Documentary Cinema – Real and Reality"

2008- 2017 “Directing and production for diploma film”

2006- 2010 “The European Cinema” introductory course

2005- 2011 “Cinematic language” introductory course

2000- 2012 “Documentary film making” introductory workshop


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2002- 2010 2003-2010

“Research and script for documentary films”

"Film festival production and programming"

2000- 2006 “Experimental cinema” workshop

2000 “Research and script for documentary films”


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Films:

In The Desert - 2018 (in post production) – Co Producer, Director, Cinema-

tographer

Two documentary features about two families who live at Firing Zone 918 –

part of the desert of the West Bank of the Jordan. The first family is of Jewish

Settlers (Youth Top Hill), the second of Palestinian shepherds. The two fami-

lies live near to one another, on two sides of a desert valley. They share simi-

lar motivations. The Palestinian and The Jewish men have decided to bring

their families in the desert to live from their flocks. The films observe at the

two families, each one separately, how they maintain their life at the desert

that both sides believe belong to them and their flocks is the way to draw the

border.

Avidan Ofir, the Jewish father, claims they have come to stay for ever and

maintains the Arabs are not connected to this, and lack spirituality. This is

why the Jews will win, he claims, but in the end finds himself confessing he is

no longer belongs there.

Omar Abu Haram the Palestinian father does not say anything. He demands

that his two wives and children work and live no matter how difficult or dan-

gerous it is. The family reveals a tremendous hurt, but they remain together.

Israeli Canadian Co Production, Mega fun production Montreal, supported

by Channel 1- Israel, Kaan Israel, Gesher fund, Mifal Hapais.

Diary of Brazilian - 2013 - Writer, Actor and Cinematographer

An experimental documentary Film and Stage performance that tells 100

years of the Jewish males descendants of the Faingulernt family. It is the im-

pressionistic journey of the director following the foot steps of his ancestors in

Israel, Brazil and Ukraine after his father died in Israel at the kibbutz he

helped to pioneer.

Performed at the Performing Arts Festival with Israel Festival in Jerusalem,

Cinema South Film Festival - Fringe

War Matador - 2011 - Producer, Director, and Cinematographer

A journal made on the border of Gaza during the winter of 2009 that portrays

an intimate portrait of Israel in a time of crisis. It examines the weird phenom-

enon of "war tourism” that flourished during that war on the Sderot-Gaza

border, when people from all over the country swarmed in to observe the

shelling of Gaza .We see the fissures in Israeli society that tie military

strength with Messianic belief. War ecstasy and the euphoria of power accom-

panying it are likened to the spectacle of the Corrida - the arena of a cruel

struggle for life or death.


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Supported by Channel 1 Israel Rabinovich fund, Gesherfund. Supported by

Channel 1 Israel Rabinovich fund, Gesher fund.

Awards and competition –

Best Feature-Length Film Award: TRANZYT International Documentary

Film Festival - Poland 2012. International Competition: TRT 2012 Documen-

tary Awards - Turkey 2012. International Competition: DMZ Docs Korean

Documentary F.F. - South Korea 2012. International Competition: DOK Leip-

zig Documentary Film Festival - Germany 2011. International Competition:

CWFF Cape Winelands Film Festival - South Africa 2012 ''Krakow Docu-

mentary Premiere'': Krakow Film Festival - Poland 2012 Closing Film: LIDF

London International Documentary Film Festival - U.K. 2012. ''Cinema from

Israel'': DIFF Delhi International Film Festival - India 2012. ''New Israeli Cin-

ema'' mini Film Festival, Phnom Penh - Cambodia 2012. ''State (T)error'': Mi-

lano Film Festival - Italy 2012. VTIFF Vermont International Film Festival

- USA 2012. SønDok (SunDoc) EDN international screening series, Copenha-

gen - Denmark 2012. IFFB Israeli Independent Film Festival in Berlin - Ger-

many 2012. Jewish Motifs International Film Festival - Poland 2012. Filmis-

real! Film Festival - The Netherlands 2012. Jerusalem Film Festival - Is-

rael 2011. Cinema South Festival - Israel 2011

Matador of War - installation – 2010 Producer, Director, and Cinematographer -

Inspired by the film War Matador, a cinematic installation portraying a jour-

ney along the Gaza-Israel border during Operation Cast Lead. The trave-

logue sketches an intimate portrait of a vulnerable border area, introducing a

profile of Israel in a time of crisis. A film is projected on three different

screens that divide the action into something like bull fight arena, as the audi-

ence observes the rising smoke over Gaza.

Petach Tikva Museum and Tel Aviv University's gallery,

Matador of Love - 2006 - Producer, Director and cinematographer

Film and live dance collide on stage, with actor Alon Aboutbul and dancer Anat

Shamgar. It portrays the journey of a woman in the Land of Israel, as she un-

dergoes an intense complicated relationship with a man whom she desperately

needs. The performance is a metaphor for the vicious and inescapable circle of

the relations between the matador and the bull in the Spanish Corrida.


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Cinema South festival, Khan Theatre in Jerusalem , Suzanne Dallal Centre in

Tel Aviv.

Men on the Edge – Fishermen’s Diary – 2005 - Producer, Director, Script Writer

and Cinematographer - ,

A feature Documentary film portrays over a period of four years, an intimate

diary of a group of fishermen: Palestinian refugees and Israeli settlers, tough

men from two hostile nations, maintain a delicate and fragile coexistence.

Produced in collaboration with the New Fund for Cinema and Television, and the Tel-

evision and Radio Channel 2 Authority.

Awards

Cinema dos Mediterraneo – Portugal - 1st award at the Documentary compe-

tition; International Prize for Mediterranean Documentary (with CMCA);

Winning of the "RAI SAT CINEMA PREMIUM”; Le Jury de L’Imagimer, Fes-

tival du Film Marin, Le Prix Planete Thalassa 2007 France. Reportage Sole e

Luna DOC FEST-Italy-1st award of the Mediterranean Category;

Festivals and Cinema Theaters -

Visions Du reel – Nyon ; Cinemed - Montpellier , Medimed - Barcelona ; Doc-

umenta - Madrid; Human Rights Watch IFF-NY 2006 ;Human Rights Watch

IFF-London 2007; Sao Paulo international film festival-Brazil; Human Rights

Watch IFF -Buenos Aires; États Généraux du Film documentaire-France; In-

ternational Film Festival El ojo cojo-Spain; Recontres Internationales du Docu-

mentaire de Montreal, Canada ; Opening film at the fifth Cinema South Film

Festival; Mediterraneo Video Festival, September 2006 Italy; UK Jewish Film

Festival - London; Israfest – L.A. USA. commercial screening at Lev cinema

theatre - Tel Aviv; Israel’s cinemateques, Luxemburg garden cinema - Docu-

mentary guild Paris

Eva – 2002 - Director, Script Writer and Cinematographer

A feature documentary film that tells the story of Eva, who in her Communist

past, abandons her only daughter rather than betray the memory of her dead

lover. She pays a heavy personal price for her actions.

Co-production of “Orna Yarmouth Productions” of Channel 1 and “Gravity

Post Production”.

Screened in “Doc Aviv” in 2002, Cinema South Festival, Channel 1 and in cin-

emateque’s and cinemas in the Balkan, won the Silver Olive prize in Montene-

gro Film Festival 2003.


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My Na’an – 2001 - Director and Cinematographer

Produced within the framework of the “Place” project, this is a short experi-

mental film that tells of an internal rift in the world of a script writer in Kibbutz

Na’an, who was staying with her mother at the moment Shani, another girl

from the kibbutz, was murdered on the nearby lawn by a man obsessively in

love with her. Film produced by Amit Goren and Channel 8, with the New

Fund for Cinema and Television.

Screened in 2001-2002 on Channel 8 in 2002 in “Doc Aviv”, and in various

events of art and cinema in Israel and throughout the world, in museums, gal-

leries, and artistic biennales.

The First will be the Last – 1997- Producer, Director, Script Writer

A feature documentary film that reconstructs the collective memory of the Mar-

onite Christian community evicted from its village of Bir’am in the Galilee dur-

ing Israel’s war of independence in 1948. Produced with the participation of

the New Fund for Cinema and Television and the Council for Culture and Art.

Screened in 1997 on Channel 2, and in the Jerusalem Film Festival, in the “free-

dom of the spirit” category.


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Founder and Director of the Cinema South Film festival –

2017 – Programs of cinema

A: World cinema with Lucien Castaing Taylor & Verena Paravel, Lisandro

Alonso, Amat Escelante, Dyana Gaye

B. Israeli cinema – with national premier among them: the new films by Haim

Tabekman, David Ofek, Anat Even, Moran Ifargan. Savi Gabizon,.

C. New cinema south of the young film makers of Sapir film school

D. Cinema from Unrecognized Bedouins villages and New Arab cinema from

The Druze villages at the border of Syria – Majdal Shams.

2016 – Programs of cinema from Cinema South Festival:

1. World cinema from Sri Lanka - Vimokthi Jayasundara, Burma – Midi Z, Ar-

gentina – Bejamin Naishtat, Celina Murga.

2. Israeli cinema – with national premier among them: Avinu – Meni Yaish,

Beyond The Mountains and Hills -Eran Kulirin, Indoors Eitan Green, Halumim

Erez Mirachi & Saar Shavit The Cinema of Raphael Nadjari,

3. New cinema south of the young film makers of Sapir film school.

4. Cinema of the African’s seek shelter who were jailed at Holot Detention

2015 –programs of cinema at Cinema South Festival:

1. World Cinema: Karim Ainouz and Sandra Kogut - New cinema of Brazil,

Ali Khamarev - Uzbekistan, Sergei Luznitsa - Ukraine

2. Israeli cinema – with national premier among them: P.S. Jerusalem by Danae

Elon, Afterthought by Elad Keidan, Encirclement by Lee Gilat, The Cinema of

Moshe Mizrahi. c. New cinema south of the young film makers of Sapir film

school.

2014 Programs of cinema from Cinema South Festival:

1. World cinema from Iran – Mania Akbari, Argentina – Gustavo Fontan,

Chile - Dominga Sotomayer, Russia – Alexei German.

2. Israeli cinema – with national premier among them: Get by Shlomi & Ronit

Elkabetz, Ben Zaken - Efrat Corem, Zero Motivation- Talia Lavie , Red Leaves

- Bazi Gette. c. New cinema south of the young film makers of Sapir film

school


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2013 – Programs of cinema from Cinema South Festival:

1. World cinema – The cinema of Albert Maysels USA, Martin Rechtman,

Santiago Mitera new Argentinian Cinema, Ezkan Elpar radical cinema

from Turkey

2. Israeli cinema – with national premier among them Plaot – Avi Nesher,

Arabani –Adi Adwan, The Cinema of Uri Zohar.

3. New cinema south of the young film makers of Sapir film school

2011- Programs of cinema from Cinema South Festival:.

1. World cinema from Chile - Pablo Larrain, Quebec - Denis Cote , France

– Bruno Dumont, special about New Mexican cinema – curetted by profes-

sor Richard Penea

2. Israeli cinema – with national premier among them: Footnote – by Josef

Cedar, Testimony – by Shlomy Elkabetz, Traduire – by Nurith Aviv, War Mat-

ador by Avner Faingulernt, Macabit Abramson. 3. New cinema south of the

young film makers of Sapir film school.

2010 – A program of films focusing on cinema of resistance. International pro-

gram of Philippine cinema with Brillante Mendoza, who was awarded the

prize for the Best Director at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Among the films

at program – Kinatay, Serbis, Lola, Tirador. Armenian cinema program that fo-

cus on Harutyun Khachatryan’s films – Border, The Return of the Poet, Return to

The Promise Land, Documentarist. Latin America cinema with films by Natalya

Almada- The General, El Otro Lado

Israel Cinema focus on the films of Yaky Yosha, Shalom, the Prayer for the Road,

Walking, Rocking Horse, Dead End Street and his documentary film Inherit the

Earth. Ze'ev Revach films: A Bit of Luck, Only Today, Mr Leon, Betito is Unem-

ployed, To Cheat a Cheat.

2009 – A program of Israeli films dealing with manhood on the margins of so-

ciety. Films premiered here: The Lonely Ones by Raanan (?) Schor; Ajami by

Sechander Kobetti and Yaron Shani; Tzion and his Brother by Eran Merav.

From abroad came films from Mexico, Congo, Iran, and Afghanistan. Other

films included Japon, battle in heaven and silent Light by Carlos Reygadas,.

This festival was in collaboration with the Three Continents Film Festival in

Nantes, France, the Hamburg Film Festival in Germany, and the Freiburg

Film Festival in Switzerland.


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Participating were Belgian director Tyrie Michelle in a discussion of docu-

mentary, economic, and political cinema in Congo and Iran; director Carlos

Reygadas regarding cinema of poetry as opposed to cinema of prose; a panel with

Lena Chaplin and Moshe Zonder regarding the film Muky Boeara.

2008 – A program of Israeli films dealing with faith and religion. Films premi-

ered here: Waltz with Bashir by Arie Fulman ; Shiv’ah by Ronit and Shlomi

Alkabetz; Lost Islands by Reshef Levi. World cinema from India, South-East

Asia, and South America. Other films included: Tropical Malady by Affichat-

phung Wursitkol, Opera Java by Garin Nugurhu. Special colaboration with

Human Rights Film Festival in New York, and the Three Continents Film Fes-

tival in Nantes, France. Leading panels with: Indian director Ador Gofalkrish-

nan regarding regional cinema; Arie Fulman and David polonsky regarding

personal documentary films, and political and animated films.

2007 – A program of Israeli films dealing with states of emergency. Films

premiered here are Secrets by Avi Nesher, The Pioneers by Sigalit Banai and

Aharon Cohen, and the documentary series Red Dawn by Boris Maftzir. Films

from abroad include a retrospective of director Marcel Ophuls with him pre-

sent, and his films Sorrow and Pity, Terminus Hotel (Oscar award for best docu-

mentary film in 1998). Special collaboration with Human Rights Film Festival

in New York. Moderating conversations with Marcel Ophuls regarding politi-

cal documentary films and discussion about the Holocaust constituting a cen-

tral element in his films.

2006 – Israel cinema program, in which were premiered: Nuzhat el Fuad and

Scheherazade’s Tear by Judd Ne’eman part of the first retrospective with him in

Israel; The Dahariyah Labourers by Itzik Lerner; Elections by Ronen Amar; The

Holy Mating by Shir Bilieh. World cinema program include films from Brazil,

Argentina, and Africa, among the latter films by Felix Samba, one of the Afri-

can independent cinema’s founders. Panel with Sergio Bloch from Brazil. Spe-

cial collaboration with “Visions du Reel” Film Festival in Switzerland. Panel

regarding script writing and political Israeli films as part of an ongoing dis-

cussion in the “Cinema South Notebook” periodical, with the participation of

Prof. Judd Ne’eman, Dr. Yael Munk, Dr. Yael Shenkar, and Eyal Sivan.

2004 – World cinema program of films fro developing countries – Zambia,

Ethiopia, Burma, and South Africa. Special collaboration with Women Makes

Movies in New York, and “Visions du Reel” Film Festival in Switzerland. Is-

rael films premiered here: End of the World on the Left by Avi Nesher; Erna’s


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Children by Juliano Mer Hamis. Video art program with the participation of

Haim Ben Shitrit and Amit Goren, Treading on Water by Eitan Fox, and a dia-

logue with actor Richard Geere.

2003 – a program that deals with immigration and immigrants mainly from

Mediterranean countries, with Immigrants’ Memories – a Triology by Yemina

Ben Gigi, Private Investigation by Ula Tabri, and The Gardeners of Martyre Street

production by Eyal Sivan.

Moderating and initiating panels

2016 - Haifa University Documentary and Ethics

2015 - Documentary Guild Conference at Jerusalem Film Festival

2014 - Documentary Guild Conference at Jerusalem Film Festival

2012 – Kibbutz – the return of the repressed – with Prof. Yaara Bar On, Ori Si-

van, Mudi Bar On, Ant Zeltzer. Screening chapters of Barefoot by Ori Sivan

and Kibbutz by Anat Zeltzer and Mudi Bar On.

2008 – Immigration – Melt Down Screening and discussion of the films Melt

Down by Kati Rivkin and Last Day by Yevgeni Gretzstein that are about the

experience of children who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Un-

ion in the 1990s. Participants: Member of Knesset (Israeli parliament) (MK)

Yuli Edelstein, Dr. Olga Levitan, Semion Vinokor, Anastasia Michaeli, and the

filmmakers.

Sderot look at the Israeli society: Screening and discussion of the film 18 Kilo-

metres by Avi Levi, that recounts the life experienced in both Gaza and Sderot.

Participants: Rino Tzror, Anat Saragusti, Doron Tzabari, and Kineret Roen-

feld.

2008 – 6 on 60: A TV documentary series. Participants: Mudi Bar-On and Anat

Zeltzer, creators of this series.

2007 – Children of the Sun: On archived films, and cinematic fiction and reality.

Participants: Ran Tal and Danny Mujja.

2007 – Faith, gender, and force: Screening and discussion of the experience of

the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the demolishment of the Jewish settlements

there, and the politics of force as perceived by the different genders as de-

picted in the film In Freiman’s Kitchen by Hadar Bashan. Participants: Moti

Shklar, Emuna Alon, Udi Leon, and the filmmakers.

2006 – Silence and violence: Screening and discussion of the films Your

Younger Daughte Rachelr by Efrat Korem, Attacked by Idan Sasson, and Dead


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by Oren Feldman – films that deal with violence. Participants: Dr. Dafna Ser-

ing, Dr. Sammy Shalom-Shitrit, and the filmmakers.

2006 – Karim Abu Khalil: On Liberalism and political cinema. Participants:

Prof. Haviva Pedaya, Dr. Sammy Shalom-Shitrit, and Nizar Hassan.

2005 – Road 181: On testimonial memory in cinema. Participants: Prof. Haviva

Pedaya, Dr. Amnon Raz-Karkuchkin, Eyal Sivan, Michelle Halifi, Dr. Sammy

Shalom-Shitrit, and Shaul Bibi.

2005 – Stories of the Southern towns: Screening and discussion of the present

day reality in the peripheral towns, as expressed in the films White Walls by

Meital Abexis, and Sisai by David Gavro. Participants: Dr. Moshe Behar, Dr.

Yael Munk, Sigalit banai, and the filmmakers.

Stories of the kibbutzim: Screening and discussion of the crisis that has over-

taken the kibbutzim movement, as expressed in the films Relay Race by Yariv

Mor, A Time to Dream by Hamotal Goren, Mefalsim 73 by Tsvi Shai, and My

Na’an by Avner Faingulernt and Macabit Abramson. Participants: Alon Shus-

ter, Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat, Macabit Abramson, and the filmmakers.

2004 – resistance and absence: Screening and discussion of the films For an Im-

perfect Cinema by Erez Perry and Oren Sennans, and My Family’s Pizza by

Ranen Amar. Participants: Doron Tzabari, Dr. Zvi Tal, Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat,

Alon Shuster, Macabit Abramson.

2004 – Searching for Mas’u’da: On the represenmtation of arab Jews on cinema

and television. Participants: Dr. Amnon Raz-Karkuchkin, Dr. Henriette Da-

han-Kalev, Dr. Yossi Yona, Dov Alfon, David Ben-Shitrit, Shlomo Vazana,

and Eli Moyal.

2002 – On cinema and war. Participants: Haim Ha’Negbi, Yehuda Etzion, and

Ronit Weiss-Berkowitz.

Selected Invited Talks :

October 2017 - In The Desert – On Politic of representation in

Mac Gill University Department of Anthropology Montreal

June 2017 – The gaze on the perpetrator following Erez Pery film - The

Interrogation about Rudolf Hoess. Tel Aviv Cinematechque

June 2017 – Identity and place – Ben Gurion University and Hebrew

University - Israel


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May 2017 – Israel cinema and civil society – Cinema South Film Festival as

test case – UCLA Nazarian Foundation - L.A. USA

April 2017 – the Cinema at the South of Israel – Language and Politic – FAMU

Prague – Check Republic

July 2015 - Jerusalem Film Film- Cinematography of Documentary films

July 2014 - Jerusalem Film Film- Documentary cinema in time of Crisis

October 2014 - Jihalva Film Festival - Lacanian Reading of personal Journey

April 2014 - FAMU- Prague – The Cinema of the South

January 2014 - Petach Tikva Museum - ‘Asonologia’ - Conference and collaboration

with MA in Art, Bezalel College

February 2013 - San Diego Jewish Film Festival - Cinema at the Border

February 2013 - University of San Marcus - Israeli documentary cinema

October 2012 - Berlin - Israel Film Festival – New Perspectives from

Independent Israel Cinema

March 2012 – SUNY Purchase - A Conversation with Avner Faingulernt -

"A filmmaker whose work explores the interactions between Israelis and Pal-

estinians living along the border between Gaza and Israel"

March 2012 – Augustana College Illinois - "Direct Cinema in a war zone"

March 2012 - Figge Art Museum Rock Island – "Beyond Stereotypes and Prej-

udice: Israel's other voice through films from the southern border"

April 2012 - Columbia University NYC - Israeli Cinema series – Men on The

Edge Fishermen's Diary screening and discussion with Avner Faigulernt.

April 2012 - Lincoln center African Film Festival NY – screening Sderot – Last

Exit – a film by Osvalde Lewat Hallade about Sapir Film School Q&A with

Avner Faingulernt

April 2012 - Pelham Jewish Center – Jewish Immigrants from Ethiopia, Mor-

roco and Russia at the cinema of the south of Israel

Maysles Cinema NYC – curetting and present three nights’ programme of Is-

raeli Cinema between Gaza and Sderot - screening of War Matador.

May 2012 - JCC Manhattan NYC – Personal cinema in conflict zone – Tikkun

Leil Shavuot.

June 2012 - CUNY Queens – Screening War Matador and discussion with

Avner Faingulernt


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November 2011 – "The limits of the realism at the Israeli Documentary cin-

ema" Haifa University a symposium 10 years anniversary of the Cinema law

October 2010 - Lecture and symposium at Petach Tikva Museum of contem-

porary art – 'Matador of War - between Documentary and Poetry' --

Hakibutzim College – 'Education and civil society via cinema'

June 2010 - Ben Gurion University – Cinema South as alternative voice

--- Cinema South Festival: attalie with Brillante Mendoza; moderating master

class with Harutyun Khachatryan

April 2010 Jerusalem Cinematechque – 'pluralism vice versa monolith in Is-

raeli cinema' 20 years anniversary to the Sam Spiegel school in Jerusalem.

February 2009 – Confluence Cultural Centre in Paris - Lecture on political

documentary Israeli cinema

October 2008 – Inaugurating the book salon in Avery, France: Opening lec-

ture and screening of Men on the Edge – Fishermen’s Diary; Panel on war and

peace, with the participation of authors and artists.

--- Avery University, at the invitation of Prof. Joyce Sabag from the Depart-

ment of Visual Sociology: Master’s Class on the essence of the term “South” as

a cinema that challenges the hegemony of the central cinematic mainstream,

and presents a different conception of the relationship between cinema and

reality.

--- Limoges Theatre Festival in France: Panel regarding the play Milmul

(“Mumbling”) by Ariel Cypel.

--- The Matrix Centre for New Media, University of East London: On mascu-

linity of the other and me in the personal documentary cinema.

March 2008 – New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, founded by Su-

san Sontag: Guest lecture that presents a psychoanalytic cinematic reading of

Journey Films, and the regarding of the Israeli peripheral cinematic space as a

psychoanalytic journey; Moderated by Prof. Shimon Dotan.

--- The Department for Media and Cinema of City College, New York, headed

by Prof. Andrei Krakovsky: Screening of Men on the Edge – Fishermen’s Diary,

and lecture on contemporary Israeli documentary cinema.

--- The Department for Media and Cinema of Hofstra University, New York,

headed by Dr. Nancy Kaplan: Screening of Egg and Hen and David Salaam, and

lecture on the relationship between cinema and reality on the borderline be-

tween Gaza and Sderot.

--- Park East Synagogue in New York, under the auspices of the Israeli Gen-

eral Consul in New York: Screening of Sisai


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June 2008 Cinema South festival - Debates on animation in documentary cin-

ema with the participation of the creators of the film Waltz with Bashir – direc-

tor Arie Fulman, chief animator David Polonsky, and producer Yael Nachliel.

--- Talks on regional cinema in Southern India with director Ador Gofalkrish-

nan, within the framework of the Seventh Cinema Festival of the South.

November 2007 – Jewish Film Festival in Boston: Panels regarding the newly

emerging cinema in Southern Israel, and screening of films produced by Film

and Television Department Sapir College, in the Museum of Modern Art. Dis-

cussion on the re-emergence of Israeli cinema. Participants: Eyal Halfon, Da-

vid Ofek, and Uri Rosenvax; moderated by Kay Wilson, the festival’s artistic

director.

June 2007 – Talks with Marcel Ophuls within a special retrospective that was

held within the framework of the sixth Cinema South Festival.

August 2006 – In the Lussas Doc Film Festival in France: Lectures and panels

regarding new voices in Israel documentary cinema; Screening of Men on the

Edge – Fishermen’s Diary and other films produced by Film and Television De-

partment Sapir College; moderated by Christoph Fustick, director of the pres-

tigious Route le Doc program.

November 2005 – Confluence Cultural Centre in Paris: Panel and lecture re-

garding cinema of the periphery, on the borderline between Gaza and Sderot;

moderated by Ariel Cypel, the centre’s artistic director.

May 2005 – The School for Culture, Society, and Media of the University of

East London: Panel regarding Israeli documentary cinema as expressed by the

film Men on the Edge – Fishermen’s Diary. Participants: Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis;

moderated by Prof. Haim Bresheeth.

April 2005 – The prestigious Visions du Reel film festival in Switzerland: Panel

regarding cinema on the borderline between Gaza and Sderot, and screening

of films produced by Film and Television Department Sapir College; moder-

ated by Jean Peret, festival director.

June 2003 – Law and society in cinema and television: On the means of pre-

senting facts and lies, as expressed by the film on the trial of the murderers of

Danny Katz (a Haifa boy who was murdered) by Avi Mugrabi, at a confer-

ence on law and society in cinema; joint initiative of Haifa University and Sa-

pir College.


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Publications in Periodicals:

2017, Faingulernt – “The Revolution of the image” –the evolution of the Im-

age at Lucien Taylor & Verena Paravel ethnographic cinema. Cinema South

June 2017, Ed. Meital Abekasis.

2016, Faingulernt A. “Avinu, The Father Binding - Reading Meni Yaish film” Cin-

ema South June 2016, Ed. Erez Pery, Efrat Corem

2015, Faingulernt A. “I will never do a film without dancing people - Inter-

view with Karim Ainouz” Cinema South June 2015, Ed. Erez Pery, Efrat Corem

2015, Faingulernt A. “On the Miracle and The Rational at Danae Elon’s film

P.S. Jerusalem”, Cinema South June 2015, Ed. Erez Pery, Efrat Corem

2014, Faingulernt A. “My Father and My Mother Went Hunting – Reading Efrat

Corem’s film Ben Zaken” Cinema South June 2013 Ed. Erez Pery, Noa Kolker

2014, Faingulernt A. ”Black Angels White Angels – New Reading at Perlov’s

Diary” Takriv no. 7 Ed. Ran Tal , Anat Even

2014, Faingulernt A. “Embossed and Pro Arctic as topographic terms in Cine-

matic Language” Petach Tikva Museum Catalog, Ed. Drorit Gur Arie

2013, Faingulernt A. “Darkness & Utopia in Avi Nesher New Cinema”

Cinema South pp. 37-43, Resling & Sapir

2013, Faingulernt A. “Albert Maysles – Interview” Cinema South, pp. 199-216.

Resling & Sapir

2012, Faingulernt A. "The Cinema goes to the Periphery". 'Panim' (Faces) for

Culture Education and society no. 57 , March 2012, pp. 94-100

2011, Faingulernt A. " Footnote by Josef Cider - castration and psychosis". Cin-

ema South 2011, pp. 29-40.

2011, Faingulernt A. “Avi Nesher's anti Tzabar Trilogy“ Cinema South 2010, pp.

27-37.

2010, Faingulernt A. “The Poor are those who pay...” – Interview with Yaky

Yosha Cinema South 2010, pp. 37-59.

2009, Faingulernt A. “I wanted to shake myself up” – Interview with Ranen

Schor; Cinema South 2009, pp. 19-38.

2009, Faingulernt A. “The camera has become a part of me” – Interview with

Anat Even; Cinema South 2009, pp. 61-73.


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2008, Faingulernt A. “Death of the Big Other” – The Curator book Cinema

South Festival 2008, pp. 35-45.

2007 Faingulernt A. “Between Ha- Lhaka and Ha-Sodot – from a group of rest-

less youths to the individual who faces his own fate” – The Curator book Cin-

ema South Festival 2007 , pp. 87-94.

Professional Jury and committee:

2015 Haifa Film Festival Jury

2014 Jerusalem Film Festival Jury

2012- 2013 ISF committee of cinema - member

2012 -2013 Member at the committee of education and society at the Coun-

cil for Higher Education

2012 Jury at City College MFA film

2010 Landau Prize Jury Mifal Hapais

2008 - 2010 Examiner for new programs at the Council for Higher Educa-

tion

2005 Jerusalem Film Festival Jury

Professional Affiliations and Membership:

1998 - The Academy of Israeli Cinema

2000 - Directors Guild

2005 - The Forum of Documentary Films Makers

Documents

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