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Innerviews is a very captivating film illustrating edited fragments of interviews with celebrities such as Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen and David Lynch. The author uses a technique inspired by screen printing to reflect the omnipresent tensions between the visible layers of the image and invisible layers of human perception.
A Satire movie that criticize the daily life in Jerusalem. A city with a great gap between its symbolic and holy values to the “simple” people who are living in it.
In her diary, Anne Frank addressed her imaginary friend Kitty. In his new animated film Where Is Anne Frank, Israeli director Ari Folman brings Kitty to life for the first time, telling her own story. In search of her best friend Anne Frank, Kitty becomes a witness to the Frank family’s last months in the Holocaust, and to Europe after the Second World War.
We Were a Sterile Bomb is a coming-of-age story of 21-year-old Avi, living in a small southern town in 1997’s Israel. Avi, a lonely introvert, wanders in and out of the city. An encounter with a young man his age shakes his numb world.
After two years in a long-distance relationship, Elishka moves to Israel to be with Lee to support him while his father is dying. At the airport, she is banned from entering the country and deported. The story unfolds through the couple’s online chats and through family conversations, using objects that were witnesses to the story. A bittersweet docu-animation.
Reflection on the loops of suffering apparent in the modern human life. It’s characters, co-exist separately, are joined together through their absurd behaviours that imprison them.
7 years ago Boaz has cut all ties with his parents, brother & sister, his friends, and his previous world. The film tracks the story of his disappearance and embarks in a surreal journey into the memories he left with his family.
The name of the film is taken from the book “Liquid Love” by the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The film investigates the tension and the pendulum swing between freedom and belonging. An attempt to express two opposing worlds trying to co-exist, where one will always overcome the other in a constant, endless tension.
The Armageddon starts with falafel patties. The last Jew who is left in the diaspora finally arrives in Israel and enjoys everything the country has to offer. By doing so he is unaware that his arrival to the Holy Land starts the Apocalypse as described in the Evangelical interpretation of the New Testament.
A woman is stuck in a pile of garbage which is her dress. Her relationships with the items are complex, it’s hard to say who is in control.
The Deceased is a stop motion animation musical. The short film accompanies Haim, an elderly man lying on his deathbed, as his family members gather to say goodbye to him on his last journey, each in their own absurd way.
The Devil chills from a hard work day in his favorite hellish arcade in expense of some poor tortured souls. A fresh take on the classic stop motion/ heavy metal marriage, loaded with demons, explosions, candy and teddy bears.
A music video - White Lies.
Yuval goes to his friends’ house, where creepy things start happening. He begins to suspect that someone is out to get him when the signs keep appearing.
Neta (1987, Jerusalem) makes short films, illustrations, titles and typography, and has directed and designed for clients such as MTV, Barneys New York and HBO. She holds a BA (Hons) and a recent MDES degree in Visual Communication, both from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She lives in Tel Aviv with her partner Lior, her daughter Zohara and her dog, Gili.
Trapped in a synthetic meditation space, an empty shell seeks power.
A visual interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s poem. The video sets in a fragile organic world in which flowers and creatures wobble between life and death, between blooming and wuthering.
“Peregrine” is an experimental animated film about obsession, instinct, and innate darkness. It explores the elegance and majesty of nature, but also its unavoidable cruelty. It is inspired by the autobiographical “The Peregrine”, written by A. J. Baker.
A day in life of a young woman living a silent, lonely life with her friend the fish. The silence is broken when a new tenant comes to live in the apartment next door. Despite the constant sounds and noise penetrating from the other side of the wall and perhaps because of them, she finds herself falling in love with her neighbor.
Lili refuses to let go of her childhood fights a sandstorm that threatens to take it away. In the heart of the storm she rediscovers the joy of childhood, but forced to choose between illusion and reality.