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Amos Gitai () is an artist and an Israeli filmmaker, born 11 October 1950 in
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, Israel. Gitai's work was presented in several major retrospectives in
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in Paris, the
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(MoMA) and
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in New York, and the
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in London. To date, Amos Gitai has created over 90 works of art, including a wide variety of formats such as feature and short films, fiction and documentaries, experimental work, television productions, installations and theater works. Between 1999 and 2017 ten of his films participated in the
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for the
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as well as The
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for the
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award. He has worked with
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and more. Since 2000 he has been collaborating with the French screenwriter Marie-José Sanselme. He received several prestigious prizes, in particular the Leopard of Honor at the Locarno International Film Festival (2008), the Roberto Rossellini Prize (2005), the Robert Bresson Prize (2013), the Paradjanov Prize (2014) and
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(2017). In 2018, Amos Gitai was elected professor at the chair of artistic creation at the
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, with a series of 12 lessons on cinema. In 2019 he received the Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine della Stella Italia. His film ''Shikun'' (2024), starring
Irène Jacob Irène Marie Jacob (born 15 July 1966) is a French-Swiss actress known for her work with Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. She won the 1991 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the Kieślowski film '' The Double Life of V ...
and Bahira Ablassi, was an official selection at the Berlin International Film Festival.


Early life

Gitai was born to
Munio Weinraub Munio Gitai Weinraub (March 6, 1909 – September 24, 1970) was an Israeli architect, a pioneer of modern architecture and urban and environmental planning in Israel, and one of the most prominent representatives of the Bauhaus heritage in the co ...
, an architect formed at the pre-war German
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art school, and to Efratia Margalit, an intellectual, a storyteller and a teacher. He graduated from the
Hebrew Reali School The Hebrew Reali School of Haifa (), located in Haifa, Israel, is one of the country's oldest private schools.Haifa Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...
in 1968. He holds a degree in architecture from the Technion in Haifa and a PhD in architecture from the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...
. In 1973, during the
Yom Kippur War The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states led by Egypt and S ...
, Gitai had to interrupt his architecture studies as he was called up to the reserve service as part of a helicopter rescue crew. Gitai was wounded when the helicopter he was in was hit by a Syrian missile. During his missions, he used a Super 8 camera to document the war. After the war, he embarked on a career as a filmmaker and made his first documentary in 1980, House.


Film career

Gitai began his career directing mostly documentaries. In 1980 he directed his first full-length film ''House'', which follows a house in West Jerusalem, abandoned during the 1948 war by its Palestinian owner. In the film, Gitai follows the different house tenants over the years, making the house the focus of the Israeli socio-political conflict. It opens a democratic cinematic space around the same house where a split of perspectives on the situation and its history takes place. The film was rejected and censored by Israeli television, an event which marked the filmmaker's conflictual relationship with the authorities of his country. It is to make this film exist despite the censorship and to continue along the path he had just begun, that he says at that time: "I decided to become a filmmaker". This relationship was soon to be fueled by the controversy surrounding his film ''Field Diary'', made before and during the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and resulting in a long exile in France (1983–1993). ''House'' was the first part of a trilogy including the films ''A House in Jerusalem'' (1998), and ''News from Home / News from House'' (2005). It was the first trilogy of many others; a concept Gitai consistently worked with during his career, offering a complex and layered view of the geopolitical Israeli reality. To his biographical elements (his family origins, the generation to which he belongs, his architectural studies, the making of the House and its effects) must be added the experience of the Yom Kippur War, in which he almost died at the age of 23, an experience that would influence all his future work. The traumatic event itself was the focus of a series of experimental short films and documentaries, before directing the film Yom Kippur in 2000, which definitively consecrated its stature after its positive reception at the Cannes Film Festival. The evocation of this intimate and common experience served by an impressive plastic sense is exemplary of Amos Gitai's art. The film also marks the beginning of the director's collaboration with screenwriter Marie-José Sanselme which dates until today. He continues with the making of the three Wadi (''Wadi'' 1981, ''Wadi Ten Years After'' 1991, ''Wadi Grand Canyon'' 2001) which similar to ''House'' is dealing with a specific location and examines the complex relationships between the residents of the former stone quarry – Eastern European immigrants, survivors of the camps and Arabs who have also been expelled from their homes due to the wars in Israel. Gitai turns the valley into a symbol of a possible coexistence. His third trilogy deals with Israeli political-military practices (''Field Diary'', 1982; ''Giving Peace a Chance'', 1994; ''The Arena of Murder'', 1996). Yann Lardeau wrote about ''Field Diary:'' He continues with the making of the trilogy on the procedures of world capitalism (''Pineapple'', 1984; ''Bangkok-Bahrain/Labour for Sale'', 1984; ''Orange'', 1998) and the trilogy on the resurgence of the European extreme right (''In the Wupper Valley'', 1993; ''In the Name of the Duce/Naples-Rome'', 1994; ''Queen Mary '87'', 1995). But also trilogies of fiction, trilogies of exile (''Esther'', 1985; ''Berlin-Jerusalem'', 1989; ''Golem, the spirit of exile'', 1991), trilogies of cities (''Devarim'', 1995; ''Yom Yom'', 1998; ''Kadosh'', 1999), trilogy of historical events decisive for Israel (''Yom Kippur'', 2000; ''Eden'', 2001; ''Kedma'', 2002 and trilogy of borders (''Promised Land'', 2004; ''Free Zone'', 2005; ''Disengagement'', 2007). He then devotes a diptych to his parents, with the first film ''Carmel'' (2009), which is an intimate reflection on the correspondence of his mother Efratia (Gallimard, 2010). The second film ''Lullaby to My Father'' (2012) traces the journey of his father Munio Gitai Weinraub from his childhood in Silesia, his Bauhaus studies with Mies van der Rohe and Hannes Meyer at the time of the rise to power and the conquest of power by the Nazis. Gitai conducts tireless research on aesthetic means, which is anchored in the experimental uses of the camera from adolescence, and goes through the assertive stylisation of early fiction under the claimed influence of Bertolt Brecht and expressionism, as well as through the search for filming devices adapted to particular projects. One of the stylistic figures most willingly employed by Amos Gitai is the sequence shot, the long duration of the recording being used for multiple purposes never limited to visual seduction, but always in search of meaningful effects. A committed artist, Gitai is also the inventor of unexpected dramatic structures, such as the asymmetrical doubling of ''Berlin-Jerusalem'', the spatial blocks of ''Alila'' or the temporal blocks of ''One day you'll understand'' (2008), the destabilizing fluidity of the ''Promised Land'', the critical superimpositions of ''The Arena of Murder'' and ''Free Zone'', to the abruptly broken-in-two narrative of ''Disengagement'' (2007) or the single 81-minute sequence shot of ''Ana Arabia'' (2013), which depicts a moment in the life of a small community of Jewish and Arab outsiders on the outskirts of Jaffa. In 2015, his film ''The Last Day of Yitzhak Rabin'' was presented in competition at the Venice Mostra and then at the
Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organi ...
. Twenty years after the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister by a religious right-wing student on 4 November 1995, in Tel Aviv, Gitai looks back on this traumatic event. Placing the assassination in its political and social context, Yitzhak Rabin's Last Day mixes fictional reconstructions and archival footage in this political thriller that is also about the growing crisis in contemporary Israeli society. In 2016, Gitai continued the work he began with his film ''The Last Day of Yitzhak Rabin'' in an installation presented first at the Maxxi Museum, Rome, under the title 'Chronicle of an Assassination Foretold', then at the BOZAR Museum in Brussels and at the Fondation Lambert in Avignon (spring/summer 2016). Ceramics, photographs, video installations and archival documents take up space to offer a new reading of the events leading up to Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. This latest exhibition echoes a theatrical performance given in the Cour d'Honneur of the Palais des Papes on 10 July 2016 for the
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. Based on the memories of Leah Rabin, Yitzhak Rabin's wife, Amos Gitai imagines an "able with four female protagonists, two actresses,
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and
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, and two musicians, Edna Stern (piano) and
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(cello), four voices associated in a recitative mode, between lament and lullaby, which go back in time. Also in 2016, a 540-page book dedicated to Amos Gitai was published by the Enrico Navarra Gallery and the Sébastien Moreu publishing house. The book includes more than 250 reproductions from films, location scouting and filming, as well as family archives, Amos Gitai's creations and interviews with Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Arthur Miller, Hou Hanru, Guy Amsellem, Annette Michelson, Richard Ingersoll, Élisabeth Lebovici and Stephan Levine. 35 years after ''Field Diary'' (1982), Gitai returns to the West Bank with ''West of the Jordan River'' (2017), which describes the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians today. A tribute to those, "civilian or military, known or anonymous, who, in Israel, have not renounced reconciliation with the Palestinians", the film is presented in the Directors' Fortnight13 at the Cannes Film Festival. 2018 is a year of intense activity for the director, invited by the Venice Mostra to present two films in the competition of the Venice Film Festival. ''A Tramway in Jerusalem'' (2019) is a themed comedy that humorously observes moments of daily life on the Jerusalem tramway. The film stars 36 Israeli actors
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, Hanna Laszlo, singer Noa Achinoam Nini, Palestinians and Europeans
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and Pippo Delbono. On this tramway line that connects several neighborhoods in Jerusalem, from east to west, recording their variety and differences, this comedy humorously looks at moments in the daily lives of a few passengers, brief encounters that reveal a whole mosaic of human beings. It is these fragments of stories and memories that make up the contemporary reality of Israel. The film is preceded by Amos Gitai's ''A Letter to a Friend in Gaza'' (2018, 34 mins, in Hebrew & Arabic), which responds to the current crisis between Israel and Gaza. Tao Palestinians and two Israelis read texts inspired by
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, Yizhar Smilansky,
Emile Habibi Emile Shukri Habibi (, ; 28 January 1922 – 2 May 1996) was a Palestinian-Israeli writer of Arabic literature and a politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the communist parties Maki and Rakah. Biography Habibi was born in Haif ...
and
Amira Hass Amira Hass (; born 28 June 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper ''Haaretz'' covering Palestinian affairs in Gaza and the West Bank, where she has lived for almost thirty years. Biogra ...
, as an homage to a famous letter written by
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in 1943, which gives its title to the film. The work of the filmmaker Amos Gitai has nearly 90 titles, made over approximately 40 years. To these must be added video installations, theatre productions and books. His work is indeed varied, but this diversity is extremely coherent. Over the years, travels, struggles, exile, encounters, Amos Gitaï articulates and re-articulates works which, in their shimmering, never cease to respond to and echo each other. He is now one of the most respected filmmakers on the international scene, and continues to explore new narrative and stylistic avenues, always in relation to contemporary reality, even when the narrative takes a detour into the historical or mythological past.


Novel adaptations

Gitai created several novel adaptations. ''Devarim'' is an adaptation of
Yaakov Shabtai Yaakov Shabtai (; March 8, 1934 – August 4, 1981) was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and translator. Biography Shabtai was born in 1934 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine. In 1957, after completing military service, he joined Kibbutz Merhavia ...
's ''
Past Continuous ''Past Continuous'' is a 1977 novel originally written in Hebrew by Israeli novelist Yaakov Shabtai. The original title, Zikhron Devarim () is a form of contract or letter of agreement or memorandum, but could also be translated literally as ''Re ...
''. ''One day you'll understand'' ("Plus tard tu comprendras", 2008) is based on an autobiographical book by Jérôme Clément, president of the Arte television channel and one of the leading figures of French culture, and tells the story of a French writer tracing the story of his Jewish mother (
Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau (; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. Mo ...
) and her family during World War II. ''
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'' (2010) is an adaptation of the novel by
Elsa Triolet Ella Yuryevna Kagan (; – 16 June 1970), known as Elsa Triolet (), was a Russian-French writer and translator. Biography Ella Yuryevna Kagan was born into a Jewish family of Yuri Alexandrovich Kagan, a lawyer, and Yelena Youlevna Berman, ...
and takes a look at the materialist, post-war world of the French lower middle-class. The film was shot entirely in France. In 2014 he directs the film ''Tsili'', inspired by the novel by
Aharon Appelfeld Aharon Appelfeld (; born Ervin Appelfeld; February 16, 1932 – January 4, 2018) was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor. Biography Ervin (Aharon) Appelfeld was born in Jadova Commune, Storojineț County, in the Bukovina region of the Ki ...
, and tells the story of the wandering of its heroine submerged in the nightmare of the Second World War. Tsili, a young Jewish woman, gathers all the forces of intuition and vitality to survive in this desperate universe. starring
Sarah Adler Sarah Adler (; born 1978) is a French and Israeli actress with dual citizenship. Career Adler is now best known for her performances in the 2017 Israeli films ''Foxtrot'' and '' The Cakemaker''; earlier in her career her notable films included ' ...
, Meshi Olinski, and
Lea Koenig Lea Koenig (or Lia Koenig; ; born Lea Kamien; 30 November 1929) is an Israeli actress,
nicknamed ''The First ...
. adapted from a novel by Aharon Appelfeld, he returns to the Second World War and the Holocaust:


Exhibitions and publications

Cinema installations, exhibitions and book publications are integral to Gitai's work. He has exhibited and published in leading institutions in Israel and around the world such as the
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in Jerusalem, the
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, the
Pompidou Center The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of ...
in Paris,
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in New York, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and more. Many of his exhibitions were dedicated to his parents Munio and Efratia, such as the 1996 retrospective initiated at the
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, which deals with the work of his father (the only retrospective devoted to an Israeli architect in the Paris Museum) or the publication of his mother's letters – Efratia Gitai's letters in 1994. In 2011, he presents the exhibition ''Traces'' at the
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in Paris, the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Germany and the Art Museum at Kibbutz Ein Harod in Israel. In ''Traces'', Gitai creates an audio-visual stroll with great intimacy through images taken from fourteen of his films. Images and sounds, side by side, of destroyed walls in World War II, in them stolen property of the Jews living there, or of a crowd chanting "Mussolini" during Mussolini's granddaughter's election campaign in a video taken in Auschwitz. From the violent reality of the Middle East to the soft waltz of a veteran couple on the evening of their arrest. The journey Gitai offered is challenging and shaky, evoking the violence of its history and echoes, and creating a personal reflection on the xenophobia that can change fates. In doing so, Gitai builds the sensitive conditions for sharing the memory of places and of events. In the same year, Gitai inaugurated the Museum of Architecture Munio Gitai Weinrov in his father's old offices in Haifa. After directing his film ''Rabin, The Last Day'' in 2015, Gitai continues investigating Rabin's murder in presenting the exhibition ''Yitzhak Rabin : Chronicle of an Assassination'', presented at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, Italy, at the
BOZAR The Centre for Fine Arts (, ; , ) is a multi-purpose cultural venue in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. It is often referred to as BOZAR (a homophone of ''Beaux-arts'') in French or by its initials PSK in Dutch. This multidisciplinary s ...
Museum in Brussels, Belgium and at the Fondation Lambert in Avignon, France. Through working with ceramics, photographs and video installations, Gitai enables a new reading of the events leading up to the murder. He also presents the exhibition ''Before and After'', featuring two experimental films he filmed on his Super 8 camera during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The film ''Before and After'' and ''Black and White'' are exhibited along with still photographs. In ''Before and after'', Gitai returns to his traumatic injury during a helicopter crash from which he managed to escape. The Super 8 camera shows the military jacket he wore at the time of the accident. It becomes the film's central figure. Along with the series of photographs presented, Gitai continues his post-mortem decoding work of the moment the experience becomes a personal memory. It is a process in which the subject disappears; What appears in its place is extreme compression of thick, grainy material, which translates to the stigma of the time and makes a picturesque feeling appear. What artistic situations can give a proper description of that event, to that trauma? What traces remain in memory – a few weeks after, or forty years after? The artist's journey is mutually and simultaneously fed by both film and still photography. In July 2016, a 540-page book on Amos Gitai was published by Galerie Enrico Navarra and Sébastien Moreu. The book includes more than 250 reproductions from movies and research, but also family archives and creations by Amos Gitai and 7 conversations between Gitai and :
Hans-Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is a Swiss art curator, critic, and art historian. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of ''The Interview Project'', an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is ...
, Guy Amsellem,
Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 â€“ February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are '' All My Sons'' (1947), '' Death of a Salesman'' (1 ...
,
Hou Hanru Hou Hanru ( zh, s=侯瀚如, t=侯瀚如, p=Hóu Hànrú; born 1963) is a Chinese-born art curator and art critic. He is based in San Francisco, Paris and Rome. He was artistic director of the National Museum MAXXI in Rome, Italy, from 2013 to ...
,
Annette Michelson Annette Michelson (née Michelsohn; November 7, 1922 – September 17, 2018) was an American art and film critic and academic. A longtime contributor and editor to ''Artforum'' who later co-founded the journal ''October'', she also taught for man ...
, Richard Ingersoll, Elisabeth Lebovici & Stephan Levine), two poems (Mount Carmel and Lullaby to My Father) and a poetic essay on the Golem. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Amos Gitai presents a multimedia exhibition entitled ''Kippur, War Requiem'' at the
Tel Aviv Museum of Art The Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art both from Israel and around the world. History The Tel Aviv ...
(September 2023 – February 2024).


Theatrical performances

In Gitai's body of work can also be found stage works. Like his cinematic interest, also in his theatrical pieces, Gitai focuses on the tension between the personal and the historical, between the local and the universal. Many of his works have been presented at leading institutions around the world, such as the
Avignon Festival The ''Festival d'Avignon'', or Avignon Festival (), is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city. Founded in 1947 by Jean ...
in France, the Paris Philharmonic and the
Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5  ...
in New York. Among his works, ''Metamorphosis of a Melody'' that opened the Venice Biennale in 1993 and ''The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness'' ''with
Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau (; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. Mo ...
'' that was presented in
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in 2009 and in Odeon Theater in Paris in 2010. At the same year he created the piece ''Efratia Gitai: Letters'', which premiered at the Odeon Theater in Paris in 2010. Similar to ''The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness'', Gitai worked with Jeanne Moreau who was reading his mother's letters. Another piece is ''Yitzhak Rabin : Chronicle of an Assassination'', created following the movie Rabin, The Last Day (2015) and premiered at the 2016 Avignon Festival. In this work, Gitai draws on the memories of Leah Rabin, the prime minister's wife, and produces like a parable liberated from all formalism. Four female heroines, four voices reciting the text that becomes a text between lament and lullaby, recreate the unprecedented course of history and violence in which the nationalist forces opposed the peace project led by Yitzhak Rabin, by defection and incitement. Four voices taken, as if "in an echo chamber," between documentary imagery and extracts from classical literature – the same vivid memory that always accompanied the filmmaker and director in his understanding of Israeli state and society. In 2019, the stage version of ''A Letter to a Friend in Gaza'' premiered at the Spoleto Festival in the United States. The piece is of a captivating, demanding, challenging and lyrical multimedia. At a time when art and entertainment are often synonymous, the play restores confidence in the theater's ability to ask difficult political and cultural questions. The audience cannot remain passive, and takes on the difficult task of understanding the theatrical experience in the face of his thoughts, perceptions and opinions regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Instead of proposing theory or solution, the play serves as a powerful trigger for much-needed political imagination. ''A Letter to a Friend in Gaza'' was originally a 34-minute film screened in 2018 at the Venice Festival. It was Nigel Redon, the director of the Spoleto Festival, who suggested Gitai to work on a stage version for the festival. His film and stage work share texts and actors, yet, paradoxically, the structure and feel of the film seem more theatrical, while the open horizon and stratified composition of the half-hour theatrical version give the impression of cinema. In spring 2023, Amos Gitai created a theatrical adaptation of his documentary trilogy House at the Théâtre de la Colline in Paris. On stage, the story of the House becomes a metaphor and the site of an artistic dialogue between actors and musicians from all over the Middle East, with different languages, origins and musical traditions, united in an attempt to tell together the memory of the past and the possibility of reconciliation. "A mosaic of individual narratives, all dealing with the idea of home, lost or found". The cast includes
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, Micha Lescot, Menashe Noy, Bahira Ablassi, Kioomars Musayyebi and Alexey Kochetkov, with musical contributions from choirmaster Richard Wilberforce, soprano Dima Bawab and lighting by Jean Kalman.


Teachings and conferences

Amos Gitai often teaches and attends conferences around the world. In 2017, he was a guest professor at
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, where he studied in his youth. His lectures focused on his documentary and fictional work. Through the screening of several films, the audience was able to dive into Israel's political and social issues. As a skilled architect, Gitai has a unique way of understanding and representing a human experience through time and space, and through the films ''House'', ''City'' and ''Border'', Gitai managed to present a complex narrative and image of Israel in the context of a larger global discourse. In 2018, after being elected as chair in Artistic Creation at the Collége de France in Paris, Gitai was invited to give a series of 12 lessons and lectures on his cinematic work through an ethical, political and artistic lens, called 'Crossing the Borders'. His lessons were: The documentary as metaphor; "I don't politicise my films, they have politicised me"; Depicting War; Space and Structure, Cinema and Architecture; Cinema and History; Is Cinema More Authoritarian Than Literature?; Collective Mythologies and Memories; Chronicle of an Assassination. In 2019, he was a guest professor at
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in New York.


Favourite films

In 2022, Gitai participated in the ''
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'' film polls of that year. It is held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, by asking contemporary directors to select ten films of their choice. Gitai selections were: * '' Germania anno zero '' (1948) * ''
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'' (1958) * ''
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'' (1979) * ''
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'' (1944) * '' La Caduta degli Dei'' (1969) * ''
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'' (1964) * '' Le Mépris'' (1963) * ''
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'' (1931) * '' Some Came Running'' (1958) * ''
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'' (1983)


Filmography


Fiction

* " Shikun" (2024) * ''
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'' (2020) * ''A Tramway in Jerusalem'' (2018) * '' Rabin, the Last Day'' (2015) * ''
Tsili ''Tsili'' is a 2014 Israeli drama film directed by Amos Gitai and based on the novel of the same name by Aharon Appelfeld. It was screened at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in an out of competition slot. The screenplay is based on t ...
'' (2014) * ''
Ana Arabia ''Ana Arabia'' ("''I Am Arab''") is a 2013 French-Israeli drama film written and directed by Amos Gitai. It was entered into the main competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. It consists of a single long take.E. Nina Rothe. (Ju ...
'' (2013) * '' Lullaby to My Father'' (2011) * (2010) * (2010) * ' (2009) * ''One Day You Will Understand (Plus tard tu compremderas'' (2008) * '' Disengagement'' (2007) * '' Free Zone'' (2005) * ''
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'' (2004) * '' Alila'' (2003) * '' Kedma'' (2002) * ' (2001) * '' Kippur'' (2000) * ''
Kadosh Kadosh () (''lit.'', Sacred) is a 1999 film by Israeli director Amos Gitai based on a script he co-wrote with Eliette Abecassis and starring Yaël Abecassis, Yoram Hattab, Meital Barda and Uri Klauzner and Yussuf Abu-Warda. The movie was ent ...
'' (1999) * ' (1998) * ' (1995) * ''Golem The Petrified Garden'' (1993) * ''Golem, the Spirit of Exile'' (1991) * ''Birth of a Golem'' (1990) * '' Berlin-Jerusalem'' (1989) * ''
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Documentaries

* ''Letter to A Friend in Gaza'' (2019) * ''West of the Jordan River'' (2017) * ''Reflections on Architecture'' (2016) * ''Architecture in Israel: Conversations with Amos Gitai'' (2013) * ''The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness'' (2009) * ''New from Home / News from House'' (2005) * ''Wadi Grand Canyon 2001'' (2001) * ''Zion, Auto-Emancipation'' (1998) * ' (1998) * ''Orange (Tapuz)'' (1998) * '' Kippur, War Memories'' (1997) * ''War and Peace in Vesoul'' (1997) * ''The Arena of murder'' (1996) * ''Munio Weinraub Gitai Architect (1909–1970)'' (1996) * ''Milim'' (1996) * '' Metamorphosis of a Melody'' (1996) * '' Queen Mary '87 '' (1994) * ''
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'' (1994) **''Part 1: In the Land of Oranges'' **''Part 2: Political Route'' **''Part 3: Writers Speak'' **''Part 4: Theater For Life'' * '' In the Name of the Duce'' (1994) * ''
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'' (1993) * '' Wadi, Ten Years After'' (1991) * ''Brand New Day'' (1987) * ''Reagan: Image for Sale'' (1984) * ''Bangkok-Bahrein/Labour for sale'' (1984) * ''Pineapple (Ananas)'' (1983) * ''Field Diary (Yoman sade)'' (1982) * '' Wadi'' (1981) * ''American Mythologies'' (1981) * ''In Search of Identity'' (1980) * ''House (Bayit)'' (1980) * ''Wadi Salib Riots'' (1979)


Short films

* ''Words With Gods'' (2014) * ''The Book of Amos'' (2012) * ''The Dybbuk of Haifa'' (2007) * ''11 September – 11'09'01' '' (2002) * ''Surgeon General's Warning'' (2001) * ''Reagan: Image for Sale'' (1984) * ''American Mythologies'' (1981) * ''In Search of Identity'' (1980) * ''Cultural Celebrities'' (1979) * ''Jimmy Carter's visit in Israel'' (1979) * ''Wadi Rushmia'' (1978) * ''Architectura'' (1978) * ''Under the Water'' (1977) * ''Singing in Afula'' (1977) * ''Public House'' (1977) * ''Political Myths'' (1977) * ''Hagvul (The Border)'' (1977) * ''Dimitri'' (1977) * ''Charisma'' (1975) * ''My Mother at the Seashore'' (1975) * ''Lucy'' (1974) * ''Blowing Glass'' (1974) * ''The International Orthodontist Congress'' (1974) * ''Pictures in the Exhibition'' (1974) * ''Memphis U.S.A (part 2)'' (1974) * ''Memphis U.S.A. (Faces)'' (1974) * ''Water'' (1974) * ''Ahare (Images After War)'' (1974) * ''Images of War 1, 2, 3'' (1974) * ''Arlington U.S.A'' (1974) * ''Shosh'' (1973) * ''Talking About Ecology'' (1973) * ''Fire Eats Paper, Paper Eats Fire'' (1973) * ''Memories of a comrade of the 2nd Aliya'' (1972) * ''Windows in David Pinsky no.5'' (1972) * ''Souk Women's dialogues'' (1972) * ''Waves (Galim)'' (1972) * ''Geography according to Modern man and His Control on the Environnement'' (1972) * ''Textures'' (1972) * ''Black Is White'' (1972) * ''Details of Architecture'' (1972) * ''Arts and Crafts and Technology'' (1972)


Exhibitions/Installations

* ''Kippur, War Requiem,''
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, Israel, 2023 * ''Promised Lands'', Palazzo Vecchio, Sala d'Arme, Florence, Italy, 2022 * ''Champs de mémoire,'' Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, France, 2019 * ''The Law of the Pursuer,'' SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Allemagne, 2017 * ''Yitzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an Assassination,''
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, Rome, Italie, 2016;
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-Centre for Fine Arts, Bruxelles, Belgique, 2016; Collection Lambert, Avignon, France, 2016; Galerie 75 Faubourg, Paris, France, 2017 * ''Amos Gitai Before and After'', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzbourg, Villa Kast, Autriche, 2015 * ''Amos Gitai Architecte de la mémoire,''
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, Paris, France, 2014; Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Suisse, 2015; Cinéma Galeries, Bruxelles, Belgique, 2015 * ''Amos Gitai Strade , Ways Talking to Gabriele – Carpet – Lullaby to my Father,'' Palazzo Reale, Salle des Cariatides, Milan, Italie, 2014–15 * ''Amos Gitai Army Days Horizontal. Army Days Vertical'', Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Espace de Pantin, France, 2014 * ''Las biografías de Amos Gitai'',
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, Madrid, Spain, 2014 * ''Before and After'', Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Espace de Pantin, France, 2014; Villa Kast, Salzbourg, Austria 2015 * ''Disaster – The End of Days'', Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Espace de Pantin, France, 2014 * ''Amos Gitai Architecture de la mémoire''
Église des Frères-Prêcheurs
Rencontres photographiques de Arles, France, 2012 * ''Amos Gitai Architetture della memoria'',
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, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italie, 2011– 2012 * ''Traces. Lullaby to My Father'', Museum of Art,
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, Israel, 2011; Meisterhaus Vassily Kandinsky/Paul Klee – Dining room, Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, 2011 * ''Traces. Efratia's Correspondence'', Museum of Art,
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, Israel, 2011 * ''Traces – Munio Gitai Weinraub'', Museum of Art,
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, Israel, 2011 * ''Amos Gitai Traces'',
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, Paris, France, 2011 * ''Lullaby for my father'', a video presentation in Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk, Israel, 2010 * ''Amos Gitai Citations'', Biennale Evento, Base sous-marine, Bordeaux, France, 2009 * ''Munio Weinraub, Amos Gitai Architektur und Film in Israel'', Pinakothek der Moderne-Architektur Museum, Munich, Germany, 2009;
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, Israel, 2009 * ''Amos Gitai: Non-Fiction'',
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, New York, 2008 * ''Amos Gitai News From House News From Home'', Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany, 2006; Centre chorégraphique national, Montpellier, France, 2006 * ''In memory of Munio Gitai Weinraub'',
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, Paris, France, 2006 * ''Amos Gitai Parcours'',
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, Paris, France, 2003 * ''Public Housing'', Museum of Art,
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, Israel;
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, Herzliya, Israel; Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, 2000; Jerusalem Museum, Israel, 1994 * ''Opening Chen Zhen'', Helena Rubinstein Pavillon , Tel Aviv, Israel, 1998 * ''Recycling Exhibition'',
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, Jerusalem, Israel, 1975


Performances

* ''House'', La Colline Théâtre National, adaptation of documentary trilogy House (''House'', 1980; ''A house in Jerusalem'', 1998; ''News from Home / News from House'', 2005) * ''Yitzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an Assassination'',
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, Paris, France, 2021; Coronet Theater of London, UK, 2021;
Philharmonie de Paris The Philharmonie de Paris () () is a complex of concert halls in Paris, France. The buildings also house exhibition spaces and rehearsal rooms. The main buildings are all located in the Parc de la Villette at the northeastern edge of Paris in the ...
, France, 2018; John Anson Ford Theater, Los Angeles, USA, 2017; Lincoln Center Festival, New York, USA, 2017;
Festival d'Avignon The ''Festival d'Avignon'', or Avignon Festival (), is an annual arts festival held in the France, French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city. Founded in 1947 by ...
, France, 2016 *''Interior Exiles'',
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, Paris, France, 2020 *''Otello,'' Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy, 2016 *''A Reading of Efratia Gitai Correspondence,''
Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe (; "European Music Hall"; formerly the Théâtre de l'Odéon ; "Music Hall") is one of France's six national theatres. It is located at 2 Rue Corneille in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the left bank of the ...
, Paris, France, 2010;Coronet Theater of London, UK, 2019;
MoMa The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...
, New York, USA, 2020 * ''Letter to a Friend in Gaza'', Coronet Theater of London, UK, 2019; Theatre de la Ville, Paris, France, 2019; Emmet Robinson Theater, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, USA, 2019 * ''The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness'',
Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe (; "European Music Hall"; formerly the Théâtre de l'Odéon ; "Music Hall") is one of France's six national theatres. It is located at 2 Rue Corneille in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the left bank of the ...
, Paris, France 2010;
Festival d'Avignon The ''Festival d'Avignon'', or Avignon Festival (), is an annual arts festival held in the France, French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city. Founded in 1947 by ...
, France, 2009; Fortress Rumeli Hisari, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009;
Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale ( ; ) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy. There are two main components of the festival, known as the Art Biennale () and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Architecture Biennale (), ...
, Italy, 1993 * ''Metamorphosis of a Melody,''
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, 1993; Gibellina, Sicily, Italy, 1992


Teachings

Collège de France, Chair of Artistic Creation 2018–2019: ''Crossing borders'', nine lectures followed by a colloquium: ''The creative process: contradictions, ethics, (re)interpretations.'' *Inaugural lesson: The camera is a kind of fetish – Filming in the Middle East. *Documentary as metaphor. House and Wadi, two documentary trilogies filmed over a quarter-century; Pineapple *"I don't politicize my films, they politicize me". *Representing war *Space and structure, cinema and architecture *Cinema and history *Is cinema more authoritative than literature? *Mythologies and collective memories *Chronicle of an assassination


Books

*''Amos Gitai / Yitzhak Rabin Chroniques d'un assassinat'', Antoine de Baeque, Patrick Boucheron, Ouzi Elyada, Amos Gitai, Marie-José Sanselme, Éditions Gallimard / Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 2021 *''Efratia Gitai Correspondence,'' Rivka Markovizky (ed.), CPL Editions (Memoirs & Biographies) Centro Primo Levi, New York, 2018 – ; (In Hebrew) Yediot Aharonot, Tel-Aviv, 2011 * ''Efratia Gitai, (1929–1994)'', Rivka Markovizky (dir.), Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2010 * ''Genèses'', Jean-Michel Frodon, Amos Gitai, Marie-José Sanselme, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2009 *''Munio Weinraub / Amos Gitai – Architektur und Film in Israel,'' Architektur Museum – Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2008 *''News from Home,'' Amos Gitai, Walther König, Köln, 2006 * ''Monte Carmelo'', Amos Gitai, Bompiani, Milano, 2004 * ''Mont Carmel'', Amos Gitai, Éditions Gallimard, 2003 * ''
Parcours Parkour () is an athletic training discipline or sport in which practitioners (called ''traceurs'') attempt to get from one point to another in the fastest and most efficient way possible, without assisting equipment and often while performing ...
'', Amos Gitai, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2003 *''Kippour'' ''(scénario)'', Amos Gitai, Marie-José Sanselme, Arte Editions / 00h00.com, Paris, 2003 * ''
The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness ''The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness'', also known as War Rule, Rule of War and the War Scroll, is a manual for military organization and strategy that was discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The manuscript was among th ...
'', Amos Gitai, Mazzotta, Milano, 1993


Books on Amos Gitai's work

* ''Amos Gitai'', Galerie Enrico Navarra, éditions Sébastien Moreu, Paris, 2016 *''Amos Gitai architecte de la mémoire,'' Serge Toubiana, Paul Willemen, Jean-Michel Frodon, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Annette Michelson, Marie-José Sanselme, Mathieu Orléan, Éditions Gallimard/Cinémathèque française, Paris, 2014 *''Genèses'', Jean-Michel Frodon, Amos Gitai, Marie-José Sanselme, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2009. *''Amos Gitai: Exile and Atonement,'' Ray Privett, Cinema Purgatorio, 2008. * ''Cinema di Amos Gitai: Frontiere e territori (Il)'', Serge Toubiana, Bruno Mondadori, Torino, 2006 * ''Amos Gitai: News from Home'', Walther König, Köln, 2006 * ''The Cinema of Amos Gitai'',''Serge Toubiana'', Baptiste Piégay, Lincoln Center / Cahiers du cinéma, Paris, 2005 * ''Amos Gitai'', ''Serge Toubiana'', Mostra internacional de cinema / Cosac Naify, São Paulo, 2004 * ''Exilios y territories, el cine de Amos Gitai'', Serge Toubiana, Baptiste Piégay, Semana Internacional de Cine, Valladolid, 2004 * ''Exils et territoires: le cinéma d'Amos Gitai'', Serge Toubiana, Baptiste Piégay, Arte Editions / Cahiers du cinéma, Paris, 2003 * ''Amos Gitai, Cinema, Politics, Aesthetics'', Irma Klein, KM, Tel Aviv, 2003 * ''Amos Gitai, Cinema forza di pace'', Edited by Daniela Turco, Le Mani, Genova, 2002 * ''Munio Gitai Weinraub, Bauhaus architect in Israel'', Richard Ingersoll, Electa, Milano, 1994 * ''The Films of Amos Gitai'', a Montage, Edited by Paul Willemen, BFI Publishing, London, 1993 * ''Amos Gitai'', Edited by Alberto Farassino, Mostra Internazionale Riminicinema, Rimini, 1989


References


External links


Official website
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