Reuven Brodsky’s Home Movie will be screened on Thursday, December 27, 2012, at the First International Bank of Israel as part of the “Culture and Community at the International” series curated by Drorit Gur Arye, Director and Chief Curator of the Petah Tikvah Museum of Art. Home Movie is in Hebrew and Russion, the screening is free and open to the public and will begin at 20:00.
Films in the series will take a broad look at Israeli culture, out into the margins, beyond the obvious, and into the details, focusing on issues of culture, community and the balance of power.
Home Movie, written and directed by Reuven Brodsky, is understated documentary that teases out the essence of home-ness, albeit curiously through its lack. Three generations of an immigrant family are drifting apart, family ties unravelled by divorce and new relationships. Holding them together is their Jerusalem flat, their first home after making aliyah from Russia. The flat is now empty, and must be rented out to new tenants. But it is a repository of communal memories, and disengagement will not be simple. As the erstwhile inhabitants squabble and reminisce, it slowly becomes clear that in order to set down new roots, they must dismantle their old world, disengage from what was once their construct of home. It is no easy task. (read the full review by Akin Ajayi here)
Home Movie received the awards for Best Israeli Film and Best Cinematography at the 2012 Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival. To reserve a place, call 03-5130001. The screening will take place at The First International Bank, 42 Rothschild Blvd, Tel Aviv.
Home Movie (Israel, 62 min, 2012, Hebrew and Russian)
