The Lab
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | HaMaabada |
| Country of production | Israel , Belgium , France |
| original language | Hebrew |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yotam Feldman |
| production |
Yoav Roeh , Aurit Zamir |
The Lab (original title HaMaabada ) is a 2013 documentary by Israeli director Yotam Feldman about the Israeli military industry.
The Israeli-Belgian-French co-production by Gum Films has a running time of 60 minutes, was shot in Hebrew and has English subtitles. The film aroused controversy because it depicts how closely the Israeli military is intertwined with industry and government, and how the war effort in the Occupied Territories is used as a marketing tool to promote Israeli military technology as battle-tested worldwide.
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The 60-minute film shows the rise in arms production after September 11, 2001, and the arms trade that originated in Israel and which developed into a profitable business. Director Yotam Feldman remains neutral and does not evaluate. He uses investigative journalism techniques . He attends various arms dealers and armaments fairs and is present at diplomatic meetings. The film shows how the private arms dealers manipulate a network of Israeli politicians and army leaders. Israeli arms dealers operate worldwide and show foreign states how they can use Israeli technology to fight civil and paramilitary resistance groups.
Awards
The film was honored as best directorial debut at the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival in 2013 and was also shown at the DOK Leipzig Festival , the Antenna Documentary Festival in Sydney and the Visions du Réel film festival in Nyon, Switzerland.
Web links
- The Lab on gumfilms.com, accessed August 21, 2014
- The Lab entry on Allmovie.com, accessed August 21, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Criticism in Die Zeit
- ^ Review by Al Jazeera
- ^ Criticism in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
- ^ Synopsis. (No longer available online.) Document Leipzig , archived from the original on August 21, 2014 ; Retrieved August 29, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Synopsis on the official website
- ↑ Docaviv entry of the film ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Docaviv award ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Entry on the DOK Leipzig website ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Entry at the 2013 Antenna Documentary Festival
- ↑ Entry at the Visions du Réel film festival ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
