Amos Gitai

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Amos Gitai ( Hebrew עמוס גיתאי; * October 11, 1950 in Haifa ; originally Amos Weinraub ) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter .

Life

Gitai's father is the Bauhaus architect Munio Gitai Weinraub (1909–1970). Gitai studied architecture at the Technion in Haifa from 1971 to 1975 and from 1976 at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley ; In 1986 he received his doctorate in this subject. The first films were made in 1972. In 1973 he took part in the Yom Kippur War as a soldier . From 1977 he worked for Israeli television. Two of his films were not shown because of alleged pro-Palestinian stance, he was attacked and moved to Paris in 1982. Since 1993 he has lived in Israel again.

His work includes over 40 films. Free Zone won an award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.

Filmography (selection)

Feature films

Documentaries

  • 1978: Wadi Rushima , 16 mm, 36 min, b / w
  • 1979: House Israel , 16 mm, 51 min, b / w
  • 1988: Wadi, Ten Years Later
  • 1993: Dans la vallée de la Wupper
  • 1996: The Arena of Murder
  • 1996: Milim
  • 1997: War and Peace in Vesoul
  • 1998: Bait be Yerushalayim - A House in Jerusalem , 87 min, b / w
  • 2001: Wadi Grand Canyon , video, 90 min
  • 2005: News from Home / News from House , video installation, 97 min, color (forms the trilogy House together with the works from 1979 and 1998 )
  • 2015: Rabin, the Last Day
  • 2017: West of the Jordan River

Exhibitions, performances

  • Army Day Horizontal. Army Day Vertical , 3 films. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac , Paris Pantin 2014.
  • Correspondence, Efrati Gitai - Letters , Museum of Art, Ein Harod , Israel, 2011
  • Traces - Munio Gitai - Weinraub , Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, 2011
  • Traces , an installation at the Palais de Tokyo , Paris, 2011
  • Lullaby for my father , a video presentation in Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk, Israel, 2010
  • The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness , (with Jeanne Moreau ), Festival d'Avignon , France, 2009
  • Traces - Evento, Bordeaux , 2009
  • Munio Weinraub / Amos Gitai - Architecture and Film in Israel , Pinakothek der Moderne, ArchitekturMuseum, Munich, 2008–2009
  • Munio Weinraub / Amos Gitai - Architecture and Film in Israel , Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2008–2009
  • Amos Gitai: Non-Fiction , MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) New York, 2008
  • Exhibition in memory of his father Munia Gitai - Weinraub - Amos Gitai, Olivier Cinqualbre and Lionel Richard, Center Pompidou , Paris 2006
  • Public Housing - long video presentation screens, Ein Harod Museum, Herzliya Museum, Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Saitama , Japan, 2000
  • Open Shen Zen - Performance, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion , Tel - Aviv 1998
  • Exhibition in memory to his father - Munio Gitai - Weinraub , Jerusalem Museum , Israel, 1994

literature

  • Amos Gitai: News from home. On the occasion of the Amos Gitai, news from home project as part of the 56th Berlin International Film Festival, February 8th - February 26th, 2006. Published by Berlin Film Festival. König, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-86560-059-2 . (Filmography pp. 445-499).
  • Jean-Michel Frodon, Amos Gitai, Marie-José Sanselme: Amos Gitai. Genèses. Gallimard, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-07-077141-7 .
  • Ariel Schweitzer: Terre maintes fois promise. In: Trafic. Paris, No. 53, 2005
  • Ariel Schweitzer: Une maison déconstruite à Jérusalem. In: Vertigo. October 2003 (n ° hors série: La maison au cinéma).
  • Ariel Schweitzer: Esther ou le Pourim-Shpil d'Amos Gitaï. In: Trafic. Paris, No. 40, 2001.
  • Amos Gitai: Monte Carmelo. Bompiani, Milano 2004.
  • Amos Gitai: Parcours. Center Pompidou, Paris, 2003.
  • Amos Gitai: Mont Carmel. Gallimard, Paris 2003.
  • Amos Gitai: The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness. Mazzotta, Milano 1993.
  • Serge Toubiana: Il Cinema di Amos Gitai: Frontiere e territori. Mondadori, Torino 2006.
  • Serge Toubiana: Amos Gitai. Mostra internacional de cinema / Cosac Naify, São Paulo, 2004.
  • Serge Toubiana: Exils et territoires: le cinéma d'Amos Gitai. Baptiste Piégay , Arte Editions / Cahiers du cinéma, Paris, 2003
  • Irma Klein: Amos Gitai, Cinema, Politics, Aesthetics . KM, Tel Aviv 2003.
  • Daniela Turco (Ed.): Amos Gitai, Cinema forza di pace. Le Mani, Genova 2002.
  • Paul Willemen (Ed.): The Films of Amos Gitai. A assembly. British Film Institute Publishing, London 1993, ISBN 0-85170-416-6 .
  • Alberto Farassino: Amos Gitai. Mostra Internazionale Riminicinema, Rimini 1989.
  • Richard Ingersoll (Ed.): Munio Gitai Weinraub, Bauhaus architect in Eretz Israel. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Munio Gitai Weinraub: building for a working society, 17 May - 31 October 1994, Electa, Milano, 1994.
  • Efratia Gitai: Correspondance. Gallimard, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-07-077679-5 .

watch TV

theatre

installation

Appreciations, prizes and awards

Audios

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nirit Anderman: Amos Gitai exhibit on father opens in Paris - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News . Haaretz.com. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
  2. ^ Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich [Exhibitions] . Architekturmuseum.de. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
  3. ↑ MoMA | MoMA Presents: Amos Gitai's News from Home / News from House . Google.co.il. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
  4. ↑ FAZ of October 22, 2010, page 38: Israelische Geschichtsbilder
personal data
SURNAME Gitai, Amos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinraub, Amos; Git¯ay, ¯Amôs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli film director, actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa , Israel