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nationality: ISRAEL
duration: 6'00"
made in: 2012
previous screenings: none
Avishai Sivan (1977, Israel) is a filmmaker, visual artist and published author.
Sivan’s first feature film, The Wanderer, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, 2010, in the Directors’ Fortnight section. The film won Best First Feature Film and Best Cinematography awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival, 2010.
Sivan’s documentary film, The Soap Opera of Frozen Filmmaker, a seven-part video diary, won Best Experimental Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival, 2007.
In 2010, Sivan received the Israel Ministry of Culture’s Cinema Prize.
Sivan also exhibits artwork in galleries in Israel and London.
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Homage to the short film of Martin Scorsese - The Big Shave (1967).
A man try to have a siesta but something bothers and disturbs him...
Guilt and responsibility for the Israeli occupation of the passive person...