A documentary film. A portrait of the dynamic, Canadian-Israeli architect who first burst on the world stage while still in his twenties with the groundbreaking building, Habitat '67. It begins with Safdie's early years in Haifa, his move to Montreal at the age of 15, his architectural training at McGill University, and a life-altering trip through the United States in the course of which the ideas embodied in Habitat first began to germinate. The film follows Safdie to his head office in Boston, to Israel, where he is involved in a number of projects, including the new Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem, in...
This documentary film is a requiem to the Jewish cemetery in Lodz, known before the war as one of the richest in funerary architecture in Europe. In this cemetery, massive in size, against the landscape of decay and ruin caused by time and neglect, the film shows four mourners carrying a coffin, and moving through the desolate landscape like restless sleepers unable to wake up from a nightmare. Since the film was shot, some attempts at restoration of the cemetery have been made after the political changes in Poland. The film is a record of an important monument to Jewish presence in the city of Lodz.
Albert Speer was the only Nazi in a leading position to accept responsibility for the crimes of the 3rd Reich and was convicted to a 20-year prison sentence at the Nuremberg Trials. This kindly old gentleman liked to appear in interviews and published a bestseller memoir. The 1st in a series of films entitled "Faces of the 3rd Reich", this documentary tries to answer the question whether Hitler's chief architect and minister for armaments and war production was actually feeling a true sense of guilt or only acted as if he did in order to cover his own complicity. Producer Michael Kloft managed to convince...
A feature film. The film tells the story of an Hungarian-born Jewish architect, who immigrates to the US after the war with nothing. By chance, he lands a massive architectural project that transforms his life for the next 30 years. The film reexamines the American dream and the capitalist system through the eyes of a Holocaust survivor who chose America over the Jewish state.
The was screened at the Jweish cinema festival in Jerusalem, 2024
דוקו דרמה קצרה. השלישית בטרילוגיה (הקודמות: לילה וערפל, כמו ממרחק).סרטו של דני גל, אמן ישראלי המתגורר בברלין, נפתח בשוט שבו נראות שתי גלויות: אחת, גלויה שבו נראית שכונת וויסנהוף בעיר שטוטגארט שנבנתה בסגנון הבינלאומי. שניה, אותה גלויה, לאחר שטופלה על ידי התעמולה הנאצית והפכה לכפר ערבי כחלק מהקמפיין הנאצי הן כנגד המודרניזם והן כלפי תרבויות שנתפסו כנחותות. הסרט עוסק בדמותו המורכבת של אחד ממייסדי הציונות, ארתור רופין, שהיה לזמן מה תומך נלהב של רעיון המדינה הדו-לאומית וגם חוקר גזע נלהב, ומתמקד בפגישה שהתקיימה בשנת 1933 בינו לבין הנס פ.ק. גוטנר (Günther), מדען גזע גרמני שמחקריו השפיעו רבות על תורת הגזע הנאצית. גל,...