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House: Directed by Amos Gitai. At a stone quarry above Hebron, Arab stonecutters work without explosives to cut away slabs shipped to cities to build houses. We visit a site in an old Arab quarter of Jerusalem where Palestinian laborers are enlarging a house for a Jewish family that had been an Arab family's home until 1948.
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In spring 2023, Amos Gitai created a theatrical adaptation of his documentary trilogy House at the Théâtre de la Colline in Paris. On stage, the story of the House becomes a metaphor and the site of an artistic dialogue between actors and musicians from all over the Middle East, with different languages, origins and musical traditions, united ...
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Aug 18, 2006 · House, the first significant film by Israeli director Amos Gitai, told the story of a Jerusalem home in Jewish hands that had once been owned by Palestinians. His latest movie, Free Zone,,...
House was the first trilogy of many others: a concept Gitai consistently worked with during his career, offering a complex and layered view on the Geo-political Israeli reality. "Gitaï wants this house to be both a symbol and something very concrete; he wants it to become a character in a film.
House is the story of a house in West-Jerusalem: abandoned during the 1948 war by its owner, a Palestinian doctor; requisitioned by the Israeli government as "vacant'; rented to Jewish Algerian immigrants in 1956; purchased by a university professor who undertakes its transformation into a patrician villa... The building site is like a theatre ...
A House in Jerusalem: Directed by Amos Gitai. Can a house be a metaphor for Arab-Jewish relations in Israel? Amos Gitai returns to the house in West Jerusalem he profiled in 1980. He interviews members of the Jewish families who live there, and he talks with the Arab family who lived in the house until 1948.
With these general ideas about the archaeological imagination and the reality of archaeological practice in Israel in mind, I turn first to Amos Gitai’s A House in Jerusalem (1998). This film is part two of a trilogy created over the course of twenty-five years, exploring the ownership and physical evolution of a house in Jerusalem’s German ...
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