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Broken
A documentary
film 52:00 min.
Screening format: 35MM
Shooting format: Video Beta SP, DV-Cam, film 8MM, film 16MM, Frame-by-frame
animation.
Israel-2004-2008 © Micha Kovler
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cross between the private history of Shalom Reiser and the general
history of Israel - the people, the nation. Shalom Reiser was a painter
who worked with Picasso and Schagall in Paris in the 50's, fell in
love with a Parisian woman named Michelle and lost his mind when she
left him.
Since 1959 Shalom has been hospitalized in mental institutions in
Israel. He passed away in 2000. R.I.P.
The film was
partly funded by Makor fund for original documentary films and is
in the final phases of post-production.
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All
works by Shalom Reiser
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Participants
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Lee
Trifon |
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Beni
Avni |
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Producer
/ Director : |
Micha
Kovler |
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Camera
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Barak
Tal |
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Elad
Debi |
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Uri
Montilia |
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Animation
Shots : |
Eitan
Ben-Arie |
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Plasteline
Pupets : |
Noga
Ariel |
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Sound
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Tal Ram-On |
Music
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Original |
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Editing
& Sound Design : |
Micha
Kovler |
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Editing
Stodios : |
JCS studios |
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Partial
Funding : |
Makor
Fund for Original Films |
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Script |
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Broken is
a cross between the private history of Shalom Reiser- a painter whose
been hospitalized for forty years in shelter homes in Israel for being
mentally ill- and between our own general history - as a people, as
a nation - Israelis.
Shalom was born in Poland, and at the age of six moved with his family
to Viena. He was saved from the Nazi horror machine due to his painting
talent- a talent which brought him to Bezalel - the famed Jerusalem
art school, and to Israel in 1939. In 1948 Shalom moved to Paris,
working there in the company of Picasso and Mark Chagall. He fell
in love with Michelle - a Parisian girl.
After seven years of shared life, due to antisemitic biases of her
family, and some say due to Michelle´s love for women... The
couple separated.
Shalom crashes, shatters, brakes, loses his sanity.
Since then, for nearly forty years, Shalom is institutionalized in
mental hospitals across the country. Michelle´s face lines appear
in all his paintings.
The sad and fascinating private history of Shalom is being used as
a vehicle, or a metaphor, to tell the story of a person who was not
able to guard and protect himself. Through this private story, a wider
story is being revealed, story of people who were not able to guard
themselves in the past, and are unknowingly making critical errors
in the present, in the psychological, sociological, cultural and moral
aspects.
The Sad-Eyed People
I have no intention to lecture, but to tell a story, a legend, like
one that is told to a child before he goes to bed. As the child´s
eyes shuts and his soul travels to far away land, his sub-conscious
starts to decipher info given to him while his eyes were still open.
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