Avner Fainguelernt – Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Avner Faingulernt –

Curriculum Vitae

[email protected] Work Address: School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir College D.N. Hof Ashkelon 79165 - Tel: +972-8-680-2708 Fax: +972-8-680-2634 [email protected] 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 University, Israel

Employment History:

2001- 2017 Dean - school of Audio & Visual Arts - Sapir College 2012 -2017 Head of MA/MFA Film, Theory & Production Sapir 2002 -2017 Founder and Director of Cinema South Festival 2006 -2017 Founder & Co Editor of The Curator book- Cinema South

2011-2017 Lecture at MA program at the faculty of humanities in Culture and Cinema, 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 “Research and script for documentary films” 2003-2010 " 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, 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 , 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 -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. Page 4 of 17 Avner Fainguelernt – Curriculum Vitae

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 - 2012. VTIFF Vermont International Film Festival - USA 2012. SønDok (SunDoc) EDN international screening series, Copenha- gen - Denmark 2012. IFFB Israeli Independent Film Festival in - Ger- many 2012. Jewish Motifs International Film Festival - Poland 2012. Filmis- real! Film Festival - The 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 '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 . 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

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: 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 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 , 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, – 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. 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: 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 , 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 Page 10 of 17 Avner Fainguelernt – Curriculum Vitae

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 (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 Page 11 of 17 Avner Fainguelernt – Curriculum Vitae 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 Page 14 of 17 Avner Fainguelernt – Curriculum Vitae

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 : 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

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