Avi Mograbi: Making films in the Middle East

Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi (b. 1956) has been documenting the Israel/Palestine conflict, and other issues in Israeli politics, since 1989. He has since made eight award-winning feature films and a number of shorts that forensically examine his home country's character and behaviour, and experiment with the documentary form. Juliet speaks to Mograbi about his life in cinema: how and why he chose film as his primary medium; how video and digital technology changed his practice; the logistics of getting his work funded and shown; and more. WORKS REFERENCED Most of Avi Mograbi's films are available via his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCYhnbhUeQTcysINT958qTA Avi Mograbi filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595783/ AUGUSTO BOAL, Theatre of the Oppressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed Forensic Architecture: https://www.forensic-architecture.org/ Eyal Weizman: https://www.gold.ac.uk/visual-cultures/w-eizman/