Eyal Sivan

Eyal Sivan

Eyal Sivan (born September 9, 1964 in Haifa , Israel ) is an Israeli filmmaker , director and critic of various effects of his country's politics.

Life

Sivan went to school in Jerusalem , but he never graduated. He started taking photos and found work as a fashion photographer in Tel Aviv . In 1985 he left his home country and went to Paris , where he found a more tolerant environment for his views. He is a declared anti-Zionist and calls for civil disobedience in Israel. When Alain Finkielkraut described him as a " Jewish anti-Semite " in 2006 , he sued him for insult.

Filmography

• 1987: Aqabat-Jaber, passing through
• 1991: Izkor: Slaves of Memory
• 1996: Itsembatsemba: Rwanda One Genocide Later .
• 1997: Burundi, under Terror .
• 1999: Un Spécialiste: Portrait d'un Criminelle Moderne ; German title: A specialist . An interpreted documentary, co-production by Momento! , Paris, Lotus Film , Vienna and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne . Two-hour compilation of the restored video recordings of the trial against Adolf Eichmann . Without spoken voiceover or narrator, spoken languages: Hebrew, German, French, English, Yiddish.
• 2003/2004: Route 181 - Fragments of a Journey to Palestine / Israel . Producer: Omar al-Qattan , Co-Director: Michel Khleifi .
• 2004: I love You All ; German title Aus Liebe zum Volk . Semi-documentary film about the Ministry for State Security of the GDR and its dissolution during the time of the fall of the Wall, based on fictitious diary entries of a Stasi officer, looking back reflexively after the fall of the Wall, which are read off-screen. The image material consists of original training and observation material from the State Security, television recordings of the time of the fall of the Wall and recordings made today of former Stasi facilities.
• 2007: Citizens K., the Twin Brothers .
• 2009: Jaffa, the Orange's Clockwork .
• 2012: Common State: Potential Conversation .

Honors and prizes

• 2001: Grimme Prize with Gold in the Information and Culture category for a specialist .

Participation in exhibitions

• 2002: Documenta 11

Publications

• 1999: with Rony Brauman: Éloge de la désobéissance: a propos d '"Un Spécialiste" Adolf Eichmann . Éditions Le Pommier, Paris, ISBN 2-7465-0016-7 .
• 2004: For love of the people . Absolut Medien, Berlin, ISBN 3-89848-767-9 .
• 2011: with Éric Hazan : Un état commun . Éditions La fabrique , Paris, ISBN 978-2-35872-033-5 .

Web links

• Filmmaker's website
• Website of Sivan's production company Momento!
• Widmann, Carlos (1999). Destroyer of a People , Der Spiegel, February 15, 1999 (via Sivan's Eichmann film A Specialist )
• Stein, Hannes (2005). Serious allegations against Eyal Sivan's Eichmann film "The Specialist" , Welt , February 8, 2005
• (2012). 3sat topic: The Bureaucrat of the Holocaust, A Specialist - The Banality of Evil Using the Example of Adolf Eichmann ( Memento from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Sivan's statement on the allegations made to him (see "Allegations of manipulation" and "Honored with Grimme Prize ")

Individual evidence

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