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Experimental / Fiction / Urban

Written Directed and Produced by: Ran Slavin

Running Time: 1:10:00

A man wakes up with a bullet wound in an abandoned parking garage in Tel Aviv, having lost his memory and a gun. As the man struggles to recall his recent past, a woman wakes up in a Shanghai hotel from a similar dream.

A fragmented conversation with a stranger on the phone sets off a strange exploration between the two. Tel Aviv and Shanghai in a movie within a movie and a dream within a dream.

Through a fragmented non linear stream of events that encompass day and night, Tel Aviv and Shanghai are spliced through a vague notion of reality, chaotic observations, drifting between physical and mental spheres,

between the known reality and a hallucinatory one. The film blends urban spaces and modes of perception, oscillating between film noir and science fiction, documentary and fiction.Through a probe of memory, an exploration of the city spaces takes place, processing the city as experienced through an obscure labyrinth of memory fighting to distinguish real from unreal.

"The Cycles" explores various scenarios of two cities in transit shift and decay while checking boundaries of inner and external worlds, documentary and fiction, present dream and future.

In The Insomniac City Cycles Ran Slavin explores a world with internal logic built on the axis of memory the real and the fantastic. It is a travel through dream structures, events and un-foldings that inventively blend mystery, neo-noir and science fiction genres with experimental film making techniques.

The Insomniac City Cycles has been constructed as an ongoing and changing cinematic project. Having been initiated in 2004 and completed in 2009, it is actually the prequel to Insomniac City and includes all of the chapters of the 5 year work cycle.

(Israel / China 2009)

Experimental Fiction / 70 minutes / PAL

Written Directed and Produced by Ran Slavin

IMDB: The Insomniac City Cycles

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Fiction / Mocumentary / Drama

Directed and produced by: Yitzhak Rubin, Teknews

Runtime: 98 Min

Language: Hebrew, English subtitled

Tmuna Kvutzatit Im Isha - The true story of an Israeli Jewish woman who left the country after being forced, by tragic circumstances, to give her only daughter up for adoption, her child from a Muslim-Bedouin man.

Driven by her guilt and low self-esteem, the heroin finds herself abused by all men in her life. Finally, she returns to Israel to search for her lost child and finds herself, together with her director friend, in an unusual cinematic recreation of her life, a voyage that covers three decades, a number of countries and an un-ending escape into oblivion, survival and loss.

Her loves, her escapes, the men in her life, all serve as an echo to that one unfortunate act.  Again, in an unusual manner, the heroine finds herself faced, as in a Greek chorus, with a re-examination of her life, and finds that nothing has changed over the years.

The situation reaches its climax when the real character discloses herself to the viewers, towards the film's end, when she replaces the actress portraying her, and describes the epilogue of her tragic life story.

Israel, 2003.

IMDB: A group Portrait with a Woman

A family of Holocaust survivors and their second generation children use white lies reflecting pain, humor, love and compassion to protect each other.
A young theater director, suffering a  psychological crisis followed by a broken love affair and the failure of his first play, returns to Israel after many years in Paris.

This ‘escape’ illusion disintegrates when he learns that his mother,  a Holocaust survivor, has terminal cancer. As a result of this devastating news, a web of ‘white lies’ unfolds and escalates within the family.

To reduce the Mother’s anxiety and fear, the son conceals his own misery and heroically maintains the pretence of normal life by hiding the mother’s condition from her. The mother, against the backdrop of her Holocaust experience, has the constant need to protect her children by not exposing them to the realities of the horrors she went through. She continues this pattern by refusing to acknowledge her son’s sense of personal failure.

The family doctor and personal friend, who had misdiagnosed the early stages of the Mother’s illness, is guilt-ridden and therefore cooperates with the son in concealing the facts from the mother.

The daughter returns from the US to visit her dying mother and shatters the conspiracy of ‘white lies’ within the family.

This ‘web of white lies’ continues to flourish within the drama even after the death of the mother.

Israel

Duration: 90 Minutes

Directed and produced by: Yitzhak Rubin, Teknews

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Nati's life is nothing special. He lives with his mother, leads a failed Indy band and acts as a vacuum cleaner in a children's play. From the total despair of his daily life rises a dark and narcissistic alter ego named Gotel Botel.

Written and Directed by Daniel Sivan
Produced by Yariv Mozer, Arik Bernstein and Shay Abramov
Israel Fiction, 90 min. 2009