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- You are here: Home > EXPLAINING THE LAW TO KWAME
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Friday, November 27, 2020 - 19:00
Written by:
Roee Rosen
Cast:
Hani Furstenberg
Cinematography:
David Rodoy
Editing:
Max Lomberg
Producer:
Roee Rosen
The topic of the lecture that is central to the film – the story of a 12 year-old Palestinian girl being sentenced to serve over four months in an adult prison for carrying a knife – is real, but the lecturer (brilliantly performed by Hani Furstenberg) and her content are not. Israeli multimedia artist Roee Rosen conjures an academic address that begins normally but soon devolves into erotic musings, self-doubts, and a riot of metaphors. (Adrian Martin - Viennale)
Director:
ROEE ROSEN (b. 1963) is an Israeli-American artist, filmmaker, and writer. He is known for his multilayered and provocative work which often challenges the divides between history and the present, documentary and fiction, politics, and erotics. Rosen is currently working on a feature-length film entitled Kafka For Kids. Rosen is a professor at Ha’Midrasha Art College, and at the Bezalel Art Academy, both in Israel
Contact:
Roee Rosen
Festivals, awards:
.CNAP Award, Flash award - Fidmarseille 2020 / Viennale 2020
“Roee Rosen likes to push boundaries, to blur the laws of genres, and is not one to shy away from a scandal. This time, the device is more austere. Before an audience of hardly attentive young adults, a lecturer specialized in children’s rights does a presentation on the issue of the age of criminal responsibility, as decreed for Israelian citizens on the one hand, and for Palestinian citizens on the other hand. Wonderful Hani Furstenberg, shines with the fire of comical fierceness, delivers a monologue and a performance that move from political reflections to the history of Israelian law, and then to autobiographical revelations on the state of her female body and her erotic fantasies. Through this analysis of the law, infected little by little, by carnal exasperation, it is a discourse of political criticism that develops, at the same time as its inadequacy and its dissolution. A beautiful classic piece, EXPLAINING... is the perfect example of how Roee Rosen always manages to exert tension even on the most twisted elements.” (FID Marseille)