Description of a Memory (Tza'ad Revi'i La'matbe'a)?
Description of a Memory (Tza’ad Revi’i La’matbe’a)?
Director: Dan Geva, 2006, Israel, 80min
Venue: The British Museum – Stevenson Theatre
UK Première
In 1960 French film-maker Chris Marker released a hypnotic documentary about the then twelve-year-old state of Israel. Description of a Struggle (Description D’un Combat) examined a young country trying to establish its identity and grasp a sense of its future. The film won the Golden Bear for best documentary at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival.
Description of a Memory, shot almost 50 years later, returns to the same places, the same people as the original documentary, confronting the old with the new and scrutinising the transformation of the state over the intervening period. The film re-invents Marker’s original philosophical and poetic commentary to give a fascinating insight into the changing currents of Israeli history.
TICKETS
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