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11.3.24
Monday
19:30

Coffee with Pina | Lee Yanor

“It looks very chaotic but somehow makes sense,” Pina tells me in the rehearsal room, where she dances and rehearses parts of her solo in the “Danzon” production. The dancing is interrupted from time to time, allowing us to photograph intimate silences, conversations, and laughter of relief. “I met the choreographer Pina Bausch for the first time at Le Mistral Cafe in Paris in 1993. The dialog between us continued for 12 years and from there, the idea for the film ‘Coffee with Pina’. This is a documentary from a personal and intimate point of view about Pina and her world. The film begins in Paris in 2002, the place where we first met, and continues in Wuppertal, Germany in 2005, the home city of Pina and her band.”

 

Something between a dream and a memory guides the associative development of the film. The camera wanders between the cafe, the fountains of Paris, rehearsal rooms, industrial chimneys, railway tracks, endless forest plots, and underwater polar bear “dances”, integrated into dance sequences from the works: “Agua”, and “Rough-Cut”. Internal, deep, experiential ‒ choreography of state of mind. (Lee Yanor)

 

“Coffee with Pina” is neither a narrative nor a documentary film, but a reflection on documentation, on memory, on experience. It is the closest illustration to a chain of associations, flooding the viewer with beauty and a very strong feeling of the celebration of life. In all this, one can find what can be defined as sober optimism, a rare commodity.

 

The starting point of the film is the acquaintance between the artist Lee Yanor and Pina Bausch ‒ one of the greatest dance artists of the last 40 years in theater and the visual arts. Yanor (a guest of the 2023 'Artist Residency' program at the Weizmann Institute) created the film in 2006, from a personal and intimate point of view on Pina and her world: from the cafe to the fountains of Paris, rehearsal rooms, industrial chimneys, train tracks, endless forest plots, and Polar bear “dances” underwater, integrated into dance pieces from artworks, internal, deep, experiential, whose every moment can be frozen and framed as a valid impression. It ends with Bausch’s black-and-white photographs and leaves the viewer with a new insight into the power of movement as a way of connecting with the soul, with the innermost self.

 

Germany 2006 | 52 minutes | English with English subtitles
 

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This is Etty Hillesum. At the age of 27, driven by a deep passion for life, she embarks on a spiritual and emotional journey, all chronicled in her diaries. In them, she unfolds her turbulent love affair with psycho-chirologist Julius Spier - a relationship that becomes the catalyst for a radical inner transformation, accelerated by the growing threat she faces as a Jewish woman, ultimately leading her to an enormous act of solidarity.
Hillesum’s diaries were first published 40 years after her death. Since then, they have been translated into over 20 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. Told in an unconventional fashion, the series offers a dialogue between past and present, revealing how Etty's striving for meaning continues to resonate today, and evoking the timely question: How do we find hope in a hopeless world?


Director: Hagai Levi 


The series will be screened in two parts :

Part 1(Episodes 1–3) and Part 2 (Episodes 4–6). 

Part 2 will be screened on Monday, February 9, at 19:00 p.m.
A conversation with the creator Hagai Levi after the screening of Part 2


Dutch | 148 minutes | Hebrew subtitles
 
6.2
Friday
11:00

John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger

John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era.  What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen’s film will examine how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.


Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sargent’s power to express distinctive personalities, power dynamics and gender identities during this fascinating period of cultural reinvention. Alongside 50 paintings by Sargent sit stunning items of clothing and accessories worn by his subjects, drawing the audience into the artist’s studio. Sargent’s sitters were often wealthy, their clothes costly, but what happens when you turn yourself over to the hands of a great artist? The manufacture of public identity is as controversial and contested today as it was at the turn of the 20th century, but somehow Sargent’s work transcends the social noise and captures an alluring truth with each brush stroke. Step into the glittering world of fashion, scandal and shameless self-promotion that made John Singer Sargent the painter who defined an era. Explore the unique creative process of the late 19th century’s favorite portrait artist and the way in which his portraits captured the spirit of a vibrant and rapidly changing age. 

Director: David Bickerstaff
United Kingdom 2023 | 90 min. | English | Hebrew subtitles