''Arab Israeli Dialogue'' is the tenth and final film directed by American independent filmmaker
Lionel Rogosin
Lionel Rogosin (January 22, 1924, New York City, New York – December 8, 2000, Los Angeles, California) was an independent American filmmaker. He worked in political cinema, non-fiction partisan filmmaking and docufiction, influenced by Itali ...
. It is a filmed debate between the Palestinian poet
Rashid Hussein and Israeli writer
Amos Kenan
Amos Kenan (), also Amos Keinan (May 2, 1927 – August 4, 2009), was an Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist.
Biography
Amos Levine (later Kenan) was born in south Tel Aviv. His parents were secular socialists. His ...
, shot in the basement of Rogosin's
Bleecker Street Cinema
The Bleecker Street Cinema was an art house movie theater located at 144 Bleecker Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York. It became a landmark of Greenwich Village and an influential venue for filmmakers and cinephiles through its screeni ...
by
Louis Brigante. The two participants discuss the conflict between their respective peoples and the increasingly distant possibility of peace.
Though Rogosin would live until 2000, he did not complete another film in his lifetime, causing him immense personal and artistic frustration.
The movie has been restored by the
Cineteca di Bologna
The Cineteca di Bologna is a film archive in Bologna, Italy. It was founded on 18 May 1962.
Since 1989, it has been a member of the Fédération internationale des archives du film (FIAF). It has been a member of the Association des ciném ...
as part of work done on all productions by Lionel Rogosin on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
The 2022 film, ''Imagine Peace'' directed by Rosogin's son, Michael A. Rogosin, revisits the topic and explores the making of the 1974 film and the developments in the Levant that have taken place since.
See also
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List of American films of 1974
This is a list of American films released in 1974.
Box office
The highest-grossing American films released in 1974, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by '' The Numbers'', are as follows:
January–March
April–June
Jul ...
References
External links
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1974 films
American short documentary films
1974 short documentary films
Documentary films about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Films shot in New York City
Films directed by Lionel Rogosin
1970s American films
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