Constructing Space, Changing Reality of Israel through Film

Autor(en)

Milja Radovic

Abstrakt

This article investigates the ways in which filmmakers frame reality through cinematic
space, mediating issues of conflict and reconciliation and of religion and identity(ies)
within Israel. Cinematic space depicts and expresses borders through elements of film
language. Through such (re)framing the film can question existing socio-political realities and their impact on the individual or whole communities. The microcosmic realities which constitute different communities within Israel’s wider socio-political reality are built and confronted through the cinematic space. Thus, cinema enables existing realities to be reflected and new realities to be constructed. The article focuses on two films: West of the Jordan River (Amos Gitai, IL/FR 2017) and Geula (Redemption, Joseph Madmony / Boaz Yehonatan Yacov, IL 2018). By contrasting these two films we are able to understand how cinematic space functions as a means of negotiation: identities, religious belonging and communities correlate with the geographical space of Israel.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Systematische Theologie und Ethik

Journal

Journal for Religion, Film and Media

Band

5

Seiten

105-123

ISSN

2414-0201

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25364/05.4:2019.1.7

Publikationsdatum

2019

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

604011 Filmwissenschaft, 603222 Systematische Theologie

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