Documentaries
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IT'S ABOUT TIME (ZMANI) |
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 "It's
About Time" asks one simple question: What is Israeli time?
The subject of national jokes, Israeli time can be as fleeting
as "back in a minute," as reliable as "won't take long" or as
procrastinatory as "what's the rush?" Israeli time ticks inexorably
through a glorious past, an uncertain future and a dubious present.
This superb documentary is a collage of dialogues from a dizzying
diversity of personages - Olympic swimmer, old married couple,
news editor, lifeguard, psychiatrist, waitress and men who play
dominoes together year after year. With a jazz quartet setting
the beat and a stand-up comic providing much more than jokes,
this stunning film uses an inventive postmodern structure, the
specificity of the video medium and extraordinarily tight editing
to open out a narrowly national question into the universal
realm of philosophy. And along with everything else, it's a
laugh a minute. |
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Director: Ayelet Menahemi
& Elona Ariel |
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Producer: Ayelet Menahemi
& Elona Ariel |
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Photography:
Ronen Schechner & Ayelet Menahemi |
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Music: Jonathan
avishai |
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Editor: Ayelet
Menahemi |
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54 minutes |
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Israel 2001, Hebrew |
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Untitled Document
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