The Death of Cinema and My Father Too
New York Jewish Film Festival 2022
January 12 - 25, 2022
Having abandoned a film project when his father, cast in the lead role, succumbed to cancer, director Dani Rosenberg returned to the material with a meta-narrative about a filmmaker collaborating with his ailing father in this playful statement on cinema’s power to freeze a moment but not stop the flow of time.
The Death of Cinema and My Father Too screens virtually from 1/13 to 1/18. Get tickets.
Erstwhile documentarian Dani Rosenberg makes his feature debut as solo director with a project he calls “a fiction film that crashes into the walls of reality.” Previously awarded a grant to shoot a political drama, Rosenberg had planned to cast his own father in the leading role, but the older man’s cancer halted the production. After his father’s death, Rosenberg returned to the material with a meta-narrative about a filmmaker (Roni Kuban as a version of Dani) directing his ailing father (played by esteemed producer Marek Rozenbaum) in an against-the-clock film shoot that incorporates footage of the real Rosenberg Sr. A playful statement on cinema’s power to freeze a moment but not stop the flow of time, The Death of Cinema and My Father Too won the award for Best Israeli Feature at the Jerusalem Film Festival, and finds the director’s mother Ina playing the parent of his alter ego.
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