Eyal Sivan

Eyal Sivan (Israel)

Born in 1964 in Haifa Israel and grow up in Jerusalem.

After exercising as a professional photographer in Tel-Aviv, he leaves Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. Since he is sharing is time between Europe and Israel. Known for his controversial films, Sivan directed more than 10 worldwide awarded political documentaries and produced many others.

His cinematographic body of work was shown and awarded various prizes in prestigious festivals. Beside worldwide theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Sivan's films are regularly exhibit in major art shows around the world. He publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes and representation, political use of memory, genocide and representation, etc. He is the founder and artistic director of the Paris based documentary films production company momento! and the film distribution agency Scalpel. He is the founder and Chief Editor of South Cinema Notebooks - a journal of cinema and political critic edited by the Sapir academic college in Israel where he lectures regularly. In the last years Sivan was Reader (associate professor) in media production at the school of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI), at the University of East London (UEL) were he was co-leading the MA program in Film, video and new media. presently Sivan in an Honorary Fellow at Univerty of Exeter UK, he is teaching at the Master in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and he is member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing house La Fabrique Editions.

Filmography

  • Common State, Potential Conversation
    2012
  • Jaffa, The Orange's Clockwork
    2009
  • Citizens K, The Twin Brothers
    2007
  • Faces of the Fallen
    2005
  • I Love You All
    2004
  • Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel
    2003
  • On the Top of the Descent
    2001
  • The Specialist, Portrait Of a Modern Criminal
    1999
  • Burundi, Under Terror
    1997
  • Itsembatsemba, Rwanda one Genocide later
    1996
  • Aqabat-Jaber, Peace with no Return?
    1995
  • Jerusalem(s), Borderline Syndrome
    1994
  • Itgaber, He Will Overcome
    1993
  • Israland
    1991
  • Izkor, Slaves Of Memory
    1990
  • Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through
    1987

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