EPOS – International Art Film Festival: February 1 – 4, 2012

Indulge your passion for culture! EPOS, the International Art Film Festival, will take place from February 1 – 4, 2012 at the Tel Aviv Museum. Festival directors Micky Laron and Gidi Avivi have put together an enticing program of documentary and feature films on music, dance, theatre, and film, augmented with live music performances, workshops and lectures.

Festival guests will include: Arantxa Aguirre, director of Le Coeur Et Le Courage, Spain; John Bridcut, director of Elgar – The Man Behind The Mask and Rostropovich: The Genius of the Cello, England; Kevin Hood, screenwriter and participant in the workshop the Dramatic Arena, USA; Lech Majewski, director of The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Mill and the Cross and Wojaczek, Poland; Ágnes Sós, director of Invisible Strings: The Talented Pusker Sisters, Hungary; Jeremiah Cullinane, director of Book Smugglers, Ireland; Iwan Schumacher, director of Urs Fischer, Switzerland; Philipp Stölzl, director of Goethe!, Germany; Wiktoria Szymanska, director of Themerson & Themerson, England.

Special events at the festival include:

Artist, poet and director Lech Majewski is a central figure in the festival, with an exhibit of his video art in the Tel Aviv Museum as well as screenings of three films. Majewski will give a gallery talk on Friday, February 3rd at 12:00.

Take Five – Brubeck Plays Brubeck. Pianist Darius Brubeck will perform a unique concert honoring his father Dave Brubeck on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 22:00, at the Tel Aviv Museum immediately following the screening of the film Dave Brubeck – In His Own Sweet Way. Performing with Brubeck will be Dave Higgins on saxophone, Tal Ronen on bass and Shay Zalman on drums. Tickets and information: 1 700 5000 39. On Saturday, February 4, Brubeck will perform in Haifa at Beit Aba Hushi at 21:00, call 04-8227850 for tickets.

A Master Class on Developing Feature Films about Artists – Edited and moderated by Ruth Lev Ari, the master class will feature: Kevin Hood, who wrote the screenplay for Becoming Jane (2007), a film about the early life of author Jane Austen; Lech Majewski, director of The Mill and the Cross (2011), based on the painting The Procession to Calvary by Pieter Bruegel the Elder; and Philipp Stölzl, director of Goethe! (2011), that centers on Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s youth. The master class will take place in English, on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 from 12:00 – 18:00 at the Tel Aviv Museum. For additional information and registration, write to: epos3.dramaticscene@gmail.com.

The full program of films is available on the festival website: www.filmart.co.il/en.

In addition to the Tel Aviv Museum, the festival films will be screened at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, Haifa Cinematheque, Haifa Museum of Art and the Dance Center in Emek HaMa’ayanot in Beit Shean. Tickets are 48 NIS/40 NIS discounts for seniors, students and members of guilds, 24 NIS for soldiers; and may be purchased online, or call: 03-6077020.