Eyal Sivan

Eyal Sivan
Sivan in 2014
Born	9 September 1964 Haifa, Israel
Occupation	Filmmaker
Spouse	Armelle Laborie
Website	eyalsivan.info

Eyal Sivan (Hebrew: אייל סיון) is an Israeli documentary filmmaker, theoretician and scholar based in Paris, France.

Early life

Eyal Sivan is a Filmmaker, Writer and theoretician born in 1964 in Haifa, Israel; raised in Jerusalem; and based in Europe since 1985.

As a teenager, Sivan abandoned formal education to dedicate himself to his hobbies, which were photography and political activism.

Career

After working as a professional commercial photographer in Tel Aviv, he left Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. He now splits his time between Europe and Israel. Known for his controversial films,^{[citation needed]} Sivan has produced and directed more than a dozen political documentaries. Common State (2012), Jaffa (2009) and Route 181 (2003) won awards at various festivals.^{[citation needed]}

Sivan's films are regularly exhibited in art exhibitions including Documenta, Manifesta and ICP New York. His work touches on such themes as the representation of political crime; the political use of memory; the ethics of documentary filmmaking; and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He is the founder and artistic director of the Paris-based documentary film company Momento ! and of the film distribution agency Scalpel. He created South Cinema Notebooks, a journal of cinema criticism published by the Sapir Academic College in Ashkelon.

In response to a question by Aljazeera as to why so many "progressive and anti-Zionist academics, activists, and artists" are fleeing Israel, Sivan responded: "The veil of democracy is being ripped from Israeli faces."^[1]

Academic postings

• Professor, Amsterdam University of the Arts, Nederlands Film Academy, Nederlands
• Associate Professor, Media Production, University of East London, School of Arts and Digital Industries, United Kingdom
• Honorary Fellow, European Centre for Palestinian Studies, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
• Visiting Professor, Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Visiting Professor, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy
• Visiting Professor, Sapir Academic College, School of Sound and Visual Arts, Ashkelon, Israel

Filmography

• 2012 Common State, Potential Conversation
• 2009 Jaffa, the Orange's Clockwork
• 2007 Citizens K, the Twin Brothers
• 2005 Faces of the Fallen
• 2004 I Love You All / Aus Liebe Zum Volk (co-directed with Audrey Maurion)
• 2003 Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (co-directed with Michel Khleifi)
• 2001 On the Top of the Descent
• 1999 The Specialist, Portrait of a Modern Criminal
• 1997 Burundi, under Terror
• 1996 Itsembatsemba, Rwanda One Genocide Later
• 1995 Aqabat-Jaber, Peace with no Return?
• 1994 Jerusalem(s), Borderline Syndrome
• 1993 Itgaber, He Will Overcome - Conversations with Yeshayahou Lebowitz
• 1991 Israland
• 1990 Izkor, Slaves of Memory
• 1987 Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through

Other visual works

• 2012 Towards a common archive, testimonies of Zionist veterans of 1948. Multi screens video show.
• 2012 Montage Interdit. Berlin Documentary Forum 2 New practices across disciplines. Haus der Kulturen der Welt [www.hkw.de]
• 2010 Documentary moments 1 : Renaissance. Berlin Documentary Forum 1 New practices across disciplines. Haus der Kulturen der Welt
• 2009 Fragmented memory of spectatorship. Top 10 documentary programme IDFA Amsterdam
• 2008 Happy birthdays, towards a common archive - fragment 1. Multi screens video Installation
• 2001 Scalpel / Skalpel. (concept & artistic director) TV magazine for ARTE
• 1994 Jerusalem, Jerusalems. Conception and direction of a Theme evening for ARTE
• 1988 Progressive list for Peace. TV spots

References

External links

• Official website
• Eyal Sivan on culture base www.culturbase.net
• The Barber Trial: Sivan vs. Finkielkraut Cabinet Magazine Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman www.cabinetmagazine.org