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- You are here: Home > IT WASN’T THE RIGHT MOUNTAIN, MOHAMMAD
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Friday, November 27, 2020 - 19:00
Written by:
Mili Pecherer
Editing:
Mili Pecherer, Jean Hubert
Sound:
Arno Ledoux
Music:
Eliav Varda
Special effects:
Alexis Hallaert
Animation:
Mili Pecherer, Alexis Hallaert
Producer:
Natalia Trebik
Production:
Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
We never get to know who Mohammad is, nor which mountain was the right one. What we do know is what happens on the wrong mountain: the crossing of paths between Mili, who tries to live an honest life by looking after her flock of rams, implacably threatened by a harsh, indifferent world, and Abraham, who is to be told by God at the last moment to sacrifice a ram instead of his own son. The first installment of a larger project, the film lays its foundations: to approach the intimate by starting from the Bible, to nourish the relationship to oneself and to the world by going back to the story of Creation. (FIDMarseille)
Director:
MILI PECHERER was born in the Holy Land in 1988. She has made films with Napoleon Bonaparte, God, a hemorrhoid, a donkey, and rams which have been screened and awarded in festivals such as the Berlinale, Annecy, FIDMarseille, etc. She is a graduate of Bezalel, the Jerusalem Academy of Art, and Le Fresnoy - National Studio of Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, where she won the StudioCollector 2019 award. She currently lives in Marseille.
Contact:
Natalia Trebik
Festivals, awards:
StudioCollector Award 2019 / Berlinale Shorts 2020 / Annecy 2020 / FIDMarseille 2020 / Cervino Cine Mountain 2020 / Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival 2020 / Split 2020
„„The story of IT WASN’T THE RIGHT MOUNTAIN, MOHAMMAD was born out of two significant events: one is ancient and the other is recent. The ancient one happened approximately 3,800 years ago, when God ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. It was probably one of the biggest leaps of faith anyone has ever known. I, however, found the catharsis quite puzzling. Just as Abraham was about to sacrifice his son on the mount of Moriah, he was interrupted by the angel of the Lord, and saw a “ram caught in a thicket by his horns”. Abraham sacrificed the ram instead of his son. But I wondered - Who was this ram? How did he get caught up in that situation? In my films, I’ve always taken the approach of describing the world as I see it, through my own eyes. Therefore I decided that the only way to be loyal to a certain truth, without imposing it on anybody, would be to imagine what could have happened to me, back then, when God tested everyone’s faith on the mount of Moriah.” (Mili Pecherer)