Movies: Amos Gitai

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Movie houses in 1930s Poland and present-day Israel are attacked....

After of Waves 1 (1972) Amos Gitai made another short film entitled Waves 2, in 1976 and again in Super-8....

1974 Gitai super8 short film...

1973 Gitai super8 short film...

Inspired by the "The wind of cinema" festival which every year deals with issues relating to the relationship between cinema and philosophy, it shows a conversation between the critic Enrico Ghezzi and some directors including Werner Herzog, Amos Git...

House is the story of a house in West-Jerusalem: abandoned during the 1948 war by its owner, a Palestinian doctor; requisitioned by the Israeli government as "vacant'; rented to Jewish Algerian immigrants in 1956; purchased by a university professor ...

What is under discussion is the actual construction of the state of Israel, its history and identity, besides the oedipal theme for an architect-filmmaker. An informed and intelligent man, Gitai manages to take his conversations to non-conventional p...

With the feel of experimental film, Gitai mixes storytelling, readers' theater, cityscapes (usually seen from moving trains), and desolate landscapes to mediate on the act of creation. What if a golem were fashioned out of dirt, much like Adam, and c...

Can a house be a metaphor for Arab-Jewish relations in Israel? Amos Gitai returns to the house in West Jerusalem he profiled in 1980. He interviews members of the Jewish families who live there, and he talks with the Arab family who lived in the hous...

Documentary about the process canned pineapple takes from cultivation to sale....

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1972 Gitai super8 short film...

An essay parable, part documentary part fiction, on the desire for a leader, anchored in Brecht’s 1935 poem A Worker Reads History....

1992. In Wuppertal, in Germany, two skinheads killed a man who claimed to be Jewish. Amos Gitai questions the witnesses, the residents, and the protagonists of the trial....

In Thailand half a million women work as prostitutes while men leave the country as low-paid labourers in the Gulf Emirates. A film on the trade of human beings and economic relations in the modern world....

1973 Gitai super8 short...

1972 Gitai super8 short film...

This documentary by Amos Gitai is a personal look at the aftermath of the Rabin assassination....

Documentary about a house and its politically divided ownership over time....