PLEASE NOTE: This is a rare East Bay (co)presentation of San Francisco,
screening, even more surprisingly, in the morning!
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DESCRIPTION OF A STRUGGLE
A young boy joyfully rides a pushcart down the hilly streets of Haifa, a humped camel crosses a street, and an innocent girl paints an unseen picture in what may best represent the emergence of a new country and its unknown future. These are the arresting images captured by internationally acclaimed filmmaker Chris Marker (LA JETEE, SANS SOLEIL*)* in his 1961 travels to Israel. Winner of the Golden Bear at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival, Marker's remarkable documentary thoroughly examined, critiqued and predicted the newly created state's past, present and future. Striking in the beauty of its images, ranging from the vastness of the desert landscape and the tranquility of the sea to the hubris of Tel Aviv, DESCRIPTION OF A STRUGGLE allows a rare and memorable glance at an Israel in the making. (Joshua Moore)
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DESCRIPTION OF A MEMORY
Nearly 50 years after Chris Marker's landmark 1961 documentary about Israel, DESCRIPTION OF A STRUGGLE**, Dan Geva's film engages with and pays tribute to its progenitor. Clearly Marker's film left a lasting impression on the Israeli-born Geva, who uses images from the original film as a springboard to uncovering the many changes that have taken place in the physical and political landscapes of Israel and in its inhabitants. Attempting to answer questions originally raised by Marker, Geva tracks down some of the people featured in Marker's film (what did happen to that young girl at the easel?), with surprising and emotionally complex results. DESCRIPTION OF A MEMORY is an intimate portrait of the nature of change in a multifaceted land where history and memories intertwine to create an odyssey both personal and universal. (Joshua Moore)
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ADMISSION to this screening is $12.
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