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The Sun Glows Over the Mountains

Nurit Sharett

2012 00:53:00 IsraelHebrewColorStereo16:9HD video

Description

A wistful film on the love of homeland.

Video artist Nurit Sharett recounts her childhood memories and converses with her Palestine-born parents who grew up in the British Mandate years.  They both took part in realizing the Zionist dream of establishing the State of Israel, a dream now shattered before their eyes.

Nurit, a granddaughter of Moshe Sharett, retells the story of her great-grandfather's immigration from the diaspora to the land of Israel in 1882.  She reviews the political philosophy of her grandfather, who spent two years of his childhood in an Arab village north of Ramallah and who, as an Israeli leader championing peace, was ousted from his position as foreign minister because of his opposition to the initiation of the 1956 Sinai War.


Director, Cinematographer, Editor: Nurit Sharett

Written by: Nurit Sharett & Shalom Weinstein

Soundtrack and Music: Shalom Weinstein

Note: This title is intended by the artist to be viewed in High Definition. While DVD format is available to enable accessibility, VDB recommends presentation on Blu-ray or HD digital file.

 

About Nurit Sharett

Nurit Sharett was born in 1963, Israel, and currently lives and works in Tel Aviv. She is a video artist who studied photography and film studies at Camera Obscura--School of Art (Tel-Aviv), at the Gruppe fuer Autodidaktische Fotografie Zuerich, and in Beit Berli--College for Art (Israel). After an 11-year period in Switzerland, Nurit returned back to Israel. Her work examines in a very poetic and personal way the complexity of life in Israel and issues of identity politics. She has exhibited internationally, and has received an award from 18 SESC Videobrazil's Southern Panorama China Art Foundation residency prize, No Red Gate - Beijing, China, The ministry of culture sports award, the Alter-Native 12 International Short Film Festival, Targu-Mures, Romania, and an award from EuromedCafe, "another look" Short Film Contest, Rome, Italy.