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Announcements

2013 · 64 min

A quiet, cerebral conversation among women unspooling ancient texts into personal reflection, rewarding patient viewers with ideas rather than images.

Directed by
Nurith Aviv
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Barbara Cassin, Marie Gautheron, Marie José Mondzain
Overview
The film Announcements paints the portraits of seven women reflecting on the same theme. Their starting point is the announcement to Hagar, Sarah and Mary as in the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran. Their thoughts spread out and weave a new web, drawing strands from their associations and interpretations of these texts. And by talking about their own history, their personal myths, they work up to subjects such as the birth of image in the Christian world or that of poetry in ancient Greece. Announcements is a film about the movement of thought, the power of words, the secret of the voice, and the seduction of the image.

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Directed by
Nurith Aviv
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Barbara Cassin, Marie Gautheron, Marie José Mondzain
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    • faith
    • identity
    • memory
    • art
    • gender
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    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
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    • documentary
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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Nurith Aviv
    Written by
    Nurith Aviv
    Starring
    Barbara Cassin, Marie Gautheron, Marie José Mondzain, Haviva Pedaya, Ruth Hacohen Pinczower, Sarah Stern, Rola Younes
    Cinematography
    Itay Marom, Eric Marcheux
    Runtime
    64 min
    Country
    Belgium, France, Israel
    Languages
    Arabic, French, Hebrew

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