NEWS FROM HOME / NEWS FROM HOUSE
The West Jerusalem building is no longer the microcosm it once was twenty five years ago. Its inhabitants dispersed, this common space has disintegrated, but remains both an emotional and physical center at heart of the Israeli-Palestinian situation. Concrete reality has transformed into scattered stories and memories.
Amos Gitai, born in 1950 in Haifa, Israel, was studying architecture, following in his father’s footsteps, when the Yom Kippur War interrupted his studies. He started using a small Super-8 camera during his helicopter missions. He then became a filmmaker.
Amos Gitai has produced an extraordinarily varied body of work in which he explores the history of the Middle East and his own biography through the recurring themes of exile and utopia.
After the controversy that arose from the broadcast of Journal de campagne Gitai moved to Paris in 1983, where he worked for ten years on documentaries such as Ananas and Brand New Day. In the 1990s, following the election of Yitzhak Rabin as Prime Minister, Gitai returned to settle in Haifa. This was the beginning of the most fertile period of his career.
In ten years, he directed nearly fifteen films, both fiction and documentary. News from Home / News from House (2005) continues the investigation into the history of a West Jerusalem house and its inhabitants, to which he had already devoted two films, House in 1980 and A House in Jerusalem in 1998.
Agav Films, Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, Artemis Productions, Arte France
Amos Gitaï
Haim Asias
Ravid Dvir, Alex Claude, David Gillain
Isabelle Ingold
Rachel Henig - amosgitaiassit@gmail.com
