Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork
Film Information:
Year:
2009
Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork
Países:
Director:
Color:
Color
Format:
Betacam
Duration:
87 min
Production:
- GUIÓN: Eyal Sivan
- FOTOGRAFÍA: David Zarif
- MONTAJE: Audrey Maurion
- PRODUCCIÓN: Osnat Trabelsi,
- Arik Bernstein, Frank Eshkenazi
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Synopsis
Eyal Sivan didn’t turn into a late impressionist painter obsessed with oranges, it’s just that that his oranges are Jaffa oranges, and in this case they become one of the most extraordinary starting points to talk about the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians. Sivan shows once again his mastery, and now he doesn’t just work with material from the past –as in the remarkable The Specialist and I Love You All–, he also questions it, going back and forth from the foundation of the State of Israel to the present, through multiple discursive and aesthetic layers and with the broadest and most extraordinary range of twinned mythological and technological symbols. Hence, it’s hard to measure the artistic and political reach of Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork, because it works in different layers, as a genealogy of the image and representation –through paintings, home movies, propaganda, testimonies– or even as a chronicle of the contemporary spirit. Not so much a film, as an unavoidable experience.