Amos Gitai : territories [videorecording] / written and produced by Amos Gitai ; produced by Amos Gitai for Israeli Broadcasting Authority ; Agav, Channel 4, and La Sept. ; Agav and Arte France ; AG Productions and Les Films d'lci.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Facets Video,
Copyright Date:
c2006
Description:
3 videodiscs (ca. 8 hr., 14 min.) : sd, col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Original production: House (1980) ; A house in Jerusalem (1998) ; Field diary (1982) ; Arena of murder (1996) ; Wadi 1981-1991 (1991) ; Wadi Grand Canyon 2001 (2001).
Contents:
disc 3. Wadi Grand Canyon 2001. House in Jerusalem -- disc 2. Field diary. Arena of murder -- disc 3. Wadi 1981-1991. Wadi Grand Canyon 2001.
Summary:
Two thematically linked films, House and A House in Jerusalem explore the history of a house in the city's German Colony and the changes in ownership it has undergone as a microcosm for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Produced yet censored by Israel Broadcasting Authority, the first film House (Bayit) (1980) chronicles the inhabitants of the house, abandoned during the 1948 war by a Palestinian doctor and requisitioned by the Israeli government as "vacant." Eighteen years later, Gitai returns in A House in Jerusalem (1998) to observe the changes in the new residents as well as in the neighborhood. Field Diary takes a look at Israel's occupation of Lebanon. Arena of Murder shows a country in turmoil following the death of Yitzhak Rabin. Wadi 1981-1991 and Wadi Grand Canyon depict a group of Palestininans and Israelis who nurture a fragile coexistence over a span of twenty years in Wadi Rushmia. Gitai first filmed the intiamte story of Yussuf and Isha (an Arab family), Iso and Salo (a Jewish family), and Miriam and Skandern (a mixed couple) in 1981. The film was released as "Wadi." He reutrned ten years later to shoot Wadi 1981-1991, about how the lives of the couples had changed and then again in 2001, when the site had been entirely changed by developers.
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