Events

Sexual Violence in Films - Ethics and a New Cinematic Language

Moderator: Netalie Braun, Artistic Director

09:30 Gathering and greetings

Vered Suweid, Director of the PMO Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women

10:00–11:30 Screening of Opening Film: Invisible (Israel), Michal Aviad

11:30–12:00 First Chair
Conversation between Dr. Raya Morag and Michal Aviad about the process and conscious attempt to find unique cinematic means and language to describe the experience and dealing with sexual assault.

12:00–12:45 Lunch Break

12:45–13:15 Second Chair
Lecture by French author and journalist Laure Adler.
     The conversation will be held in English. Earphones with simultaneous translation to Hebrew will be available.

13:15–14:00 Third Chair
Lecture by American Film Researcher Dr. Sara Projansky
Review and analysis of representations of rape in history of film from its debut till date and discussion of their various functions and meanings using screenings of scenes from films.
     The conversation will be held in English. Earphones with simultaneous translation to Hebrew will be available.

14:00–15:30 Screening of Closing Film: The Fire (Germany), Brigitte Bertele

15:30–16:00 Break

16:00–17:00 Last Chair
Discussion with directors Michal Aviad and Brigitte Bertele, author and journalist Laure Adler, film historians Prof. Sara Projansky and Dr. Raya Morag, and Executive Director of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel Michal Rozin.
Moderator: Dr. Raya Morag.
     The conversation will be held in English. Earphones with simultaneous translation to Hebrew will be available.

The conference will take place  on Thursday, Nov 10th at hall 1 , Chen Cinema, 49 S. Ben Zion St., Rehovot.
Entrance is free of charge and upon reservation only. RSVP by phone 08-9366313 or email register.iwff@gmail.com (please note event's name).

Michal Aviad, faculty member of the Tel Aviv University's Department of Film and Television, directs and produces films since 1987. All her films were screened at international festivals, won awards, screened on television in Israel and abroad and are distributed by international distributors. Invisible, her feature debut was presented in the Panorama section of the 2011 Berlin Festival and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.

Brigitte Bertele, German actress and feature and documentary film director. Bertele studied drama at the Academy for Performing Arts in Ulm, Germany, and joined the international master class for acting at the Russian Academy for Theatre GITIS in Moscow. She studied at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg and got a diploma for directing documentaries. She then went to Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bertele played in more than 30 productions at theaters in Eisenach, in Dresden and at the Mecklenburgische Landestheater, as well as in several film and TV productions.

Laure Adler, well-known author and central feminist journalist in France. Has a PhD in history, and is the author of essay books: À l'Aube du féminisme: les premières journalistes, Les Femmes politiques, Dans les pas de Hannah Arendt, Dangerous Women: The Perils of Muses and Femmes Fatales, Marguerite Duras: A Life, and more. Among her public roles she directed the documentaries and culture programs on France 2, was the presidential adviser of French television, directed the radio station France Culture and was editor at the prestigious publishing house Grasset. Today she hosts leading art programs on radio and television.

Sarah Projansky, Professor of Gender, Media and Cinema Studies. She is Associate Head of Media and Cinema Studies at the unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Projansky is author of Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture (2001), and co-editor of Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek (1996). She published articles in various anthologies and in culture and film journals. Currently, she is completing a book titled Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture.

Raya Morag, Lecturer and Film and Visual Culture researcher at the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She deals with post-traumatic cinema and corporeal-feminist film critique and Israeli and Palestinian post-traumatic cinema during the Intifada. Morag is a member of the Artistic Committee of the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, and writes a permanent cinema column in Haaretz newspaper. She is author of the book Defeated Masculinity: Post-Traumatic Cinema in the Aftermath of War.