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Once I Entered a Garden

Pa’am nikhnasti legan
Avi Mograbi
Homage Avi Mograbi 2021
Documentary Film
Israel,
Switzerland,
France
2012
99 minutes
Arabic,
Hebrew
Subtitles: 
English

Avi Mograbi met his grandfather in a dream. The setting: Damascus, 1920. Would the two have spoken Arabic or Hebrew at this impossible encounter? It’s amazing that they were able to communicate at all! For Mograbi barely speaks Arabic, and his grandfather only learned Ivrit later. Another impossible conversation begins in his friend Ali Al-Azhari’s flat: between Avi, the Jew, and Ali, the Palestinian. Their lively, affectionate exchange about ancestors, vocabularies and dreams is supposed to prepare for a film that ends up not being made. But since the footage has already been shot, why not use it to tackle a new Israeli-Palestine reality?

Sylvia Görke

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Avi Mograbi
Script
Avi Mograbi, Noam Enbar
Cinematographer
Phillipe Bellaïche
Editor
Avi Mograbi, Rainer M. Trinkler
Producer
Serge Lalou, Samir
Co-Producer
Avi Mograbi
Sound
Florian Eidenbenz
Score
Noam Enbar
Homage Avi Mograbi 2021
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The First 54 Years – An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
Avi Mograbi
Why and for what purpose does politics resort to the model of “military occupation”? Avi Mograbi uses the example of “Israel-Palestine” to explain its standard mechanisms and aporias.
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The First 54 Years – An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation

54 hashanim harishonot – madrikh mekutzar lekibush tzva’i
Avi Mograbi
Homage Avi Mograbi 2021
Documentary Film
France,
Finland,
Israel,
Germany
2021
110 minutes
Hebrew,
English
Subtitles: 
English

The archived testimonies of “Breaking the Silence”, an association of military veterans, are to be turned into a compilation of “service incidents” in the Israeli-occupied territories. But Avi Mograbi confesses: “My films tend to get complicated, even when my intention is to make a very simple film.” His reaction to a complex doom is artistically and intellectually commensurate: complex. Once again he uses a built-in commentary function in which he himself, white-bearded, explains the tricky situation to his audience: not as a special “Israel-Palestine” case, but as the bitter standard application of the globally familiar aporetic model of “military occupation”.

Sylvia Görke

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Avi Mograbi
Script
Avi Mograbi
Cinematographer
Tulik Gallon, Philippe Bellaiche
Editor
Avi Mograbi
Producer
Camille Laemlé, Serge Lalou
Co-Producer
Annie Ohayon-Dekel, Fabrice Puchault, Heino Deckert, Leila Lyytikäinen, Elina Pohjola, Farid Rezkallah, Anne Grolleron, Avi Mograbi
Sound
Avi Mograbi
World Sales
The Party Film Sales
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Z32

Z32
Avi Mograbi
Homage Avi Mograbi 2021
Documentary Film
Israel,
France
2008
81 minutes
Hebrew
Subtitles: 
English

Under file entry Z32, the testimony of a former elite soldier of the Israeli army is preserved. He confesses to having participated in the killing of Palestinians. Was it a breach of duty resulting from high spirits, collateral damage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the self-fulfilling prophecy of every military training? Avi Mograbi uses the testimony and his own disturbance as an occasion to re-interrogate the confessor who is made anonymous by image manipulation. He calls his cross examination a “documentary musical tragedy”, because he sings his comments right into the experimental interrogation room: “Oy, I’m harbouring a murderer, oy, inside my film.”

Sylvia Görke

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Director
Avi Mograbi
Script
Avi Mograbi, Noam Enbar
Cinematographer
Philippe Bellaiche
Editor
Avi Mograbi
Producer
Serge Lalou, Avi Mograbi
Sound
Dominique Vieillard
Score
Noam Enbar