DESCRIPTION OF A MEMORY – thirteen memories following Chris Marker’s ”Description of a Struggle”
(”Description d’un souvenir”/”Description d’une mémoire”)
Director: Dan Geva / Israel 2006
Category: Creative Documentary, Art & Culture, Chris Marker
Production: Dan & Noit Geva: Habayit Hakatom Ltd.; for the Second Authority for Television and Radio, Israel; Commissioning Editor: Yosi Mulla;
Supported by The New Fund for Cinema and Television (NFCT), Israel
Language: Hebrew, English, Arabic, Russian
Subtitles: English
Length: 76 minutes
Dan Geva takes us in a cinematic journey to the recesses of the photographed memory in Chris Marker’s 1960 impressionist film about Israel, ”Description d’un combat” (Description of a Struggle), which won the ‘Golden Bear’ at the 1961 Berlin Festival. Geva creates a poetic and philosophic cinematic dialogue with the original text, using images and words from that film, and then adds his own in a process that reveals that the Israel of today is the country, which the French Master could not even have imagined.