Field Diary

Yoman Sadeh
Amos Gitai
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NYFF50: Masterworks

September 29 - October 14, 2012

30th Anniversary Screening! Amos Gitai in person!

Amos Gitai’s landmark documentary about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank helped to end, in Gitai’s words, the “myth of the good occupation.”

DIRECTOR
Amos Gitai
YEAR
1982
COUNTRY
Israel / France
RUNTIME
83 minutes
LANGUAGE
Hebrew with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE
Yoman Sadeh
START DATE
October 7, 2012

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30th Anniversary Screening! Amos Gitai in person!

In 1982, Amos Gitai took a small camera crew to the West Bank and started filming the day-to-day business of the Israeli occupation. The result was a landmark in Israeli cinema; Gitai has spoken about the film as portraying the end of the “myth of the good occupation”—the belief that, in the territories captured after the 1967 War, Israel would be a very different kind of occupying power; 15 years later, Gitai’s film shows the occupation in a very different light. Field Diary also introduced what would become Gitai’s signature style: the long, lateral tracking shots that, as Yann Lardeau noted in Cahiers du cinéma, “become a question of morality…we never enter into the reality of the war, but we always remain on the edge of the scene.” Gitai will be on hand to introduce and discuss Field Diary and its continuing relevance for Israel today.

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