FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION)
2005 | MIKDAMOT / PRELIMINARIES
A cinematic literary dialogue among the Israeli author, S. Yizhar, and filmmaker Anat Even; The film traverses Israel’s battered landscape, moving along its bypass roads that masquerade as the highway to Zionism, progressing and retreating in time when in fact it is stuck at the very point that Yizhar, the infant/80 year old, marked in his book “Mikdamot” – when the Zionist dream is simultaneously realized and shattered.
(40 min) Entry Vision Du Reel, Swiss, DocAviv, Israel, Confluences, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, Dresden and others. Prizes: SRG SSR idée Suisse, Vision Du Reel 2006, The Best Israeli short Documentary 2006
2002 | SATURDAY AT JENIN
Immediately after the Israeli army destroyed the refugee camp in Jenin I found a way to enter the city. I turned my camera to the ruins of the refugee camp; my regard is turned inward, to myself, to us, to the darkness"
(3 min). Part of "Mabatim" – "Gazes", (Produced by "Matar plus"), Entries in Jerusalem film festival, 2002 and others, screened at museums in Europe & USA. Broadcasted in channel
2001 | ASUROT / DETAINED
Three Palestinian widows, live with their 11 children in a house on Shuhada Street in Hebron. Their house lies on the border; the façade is under Israeli occupation, the Palestinian authority controls the back. At the entrance to the house a military post, on the roof the Israeli army has placed a watch point over Palestinian Hebron. Three women, trapped in the middle, constantly surrounded by Israeli soldiers, carry on their difficult lives in a perverse situation: the occupation becomes a routine, the absurd becomes a given. This is the story of an occupation that extends to the staircase and the roof of the house, where it encounters poverty, loneliness, pain, but also the small joys of everyday life. This is an internal prison; the external one is the ongoing occupation.
(75 min). Entries in over 50 festivals around the world, shown in cinema theaters in Germany, at the MOMA, NY, Aired on: DRS, Switzerland, CBC Newsworld – “The Passionate Eye”, Canada, Education 22, Malta, RTSI, Switzerland, SVT, Sweden, VRT, Belgium, The Channel 8, Israel | Prizes: The Golden Dove – Leipzig International Film Festival, Germany, 2001, Honorable Mention – The Jerusalem International Film Festival (Wolgin Award Competition), 2001 The Audience Award – Vesoul Asian International Film Festival, France, 2002, Honorable Mention – Lisbon International Documentary Film Festival, Portugal, 2002
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS ABOUT ANAT EVEN:
Professional Education: UCLA - Film and Art Studies 1981-1984 | Teaching Film studies at the Sapir Academy College since 2005, Film studies at the Camera Obscure art school, 1998 - 2005 | Initiator & Artistic director – The annual Israeli Documentary Film Seminar, 2001- 2003. | Artistic director -Cinema Project - The Joshua Rabinowich fund, 2006, 2007 | Winner "The Art of Cinema" prize by the Ministry of Education and Culture, 2004 | Work for TV stations IBA – Israel TV, directed reportages for various programs and magazines on the subjects of nature, science, art and humanities. 1988-91, Israel Today – An American Israeli TV station in Los Angeles, directed and edited reportage documentary films and commercials. 1983-84