Nurith Aviv

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Nurith Aviv
Born (1945-03-11) 11 March 1945 (age 79)
Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
NationalityFrench, Israeli
Occupation(s) Cinematographer, film director, writer
Website nurithaviv.free.fr

Nurith Aviv is a French film director and director of photography who was born 11 March 1945, in Tel Aviv (then in Mandatory Palestine).

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Biography

Nurith Aviv has directed fourteen documentary films, and the topic of language is central to her personal and cinematographic exploration.

Aviv was the first woman to be recognized as Director of Photography by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC, the French National Center for Cinema and Animation), and has served as cinematographer for some one hundred feature and documentary films (for directors who include Agnès Varda, Amos Gitaï, René Allio and Jacques Doillon).

In 2019, Aviv was the recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française (nominated by Amin Maalouf)

In 2015, a retrospective [1] of her oeuvre titled "Filiation, Language, Place" was held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, including 40 films for which she served as director or cinematographer.

was the winner of the 2009 Édouard Glissant [2] Prize.

In 2008, a retrospective of her films took place at the Jeu de Paume.

Screenings of her latest films were held at Les 3 Luxembourgs Cinema, accompanied by numerous in-person and virtual discussions [3] with writers, philosophers, psychoanalysts and literary critics.

Filmography

YearOriginal title
1989Kfar Qar'a, Israel
1997Makom, Avoda
2000Circumcision
2001Allenby, passage
2003Vaters Land/Perte
2004 From Language to Language
2008 Sacred Language, Spoken Language
2011 Translating
2013Announcements
2015 Poetics of the Brain
2017Signing in Languages
2018Signing
2020Yiddish
2022Words That Remain

References

  1. ↑ "retro2015". nurithaviv.free.fr. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Cité des Arts : REMISE DU PRIX EDOUARD GLISSANT 2009 à Nurith Aviv". nurithaviv.free.fr. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  3. ↑ "rencontres filmées". nurithaviv.free.fr. Retrieved January 5, 2021.


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