Screen/Society--Ra'anan Alexandrowicz Series--"47 Years of Documentation"

"47 Years of Documentation" -- A talk/visual presentation by Israeli documentary filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz: Celebrated Israeli filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz ("The Law in These Parts") comes to do Duke to give an archival presentation, "47 years of Documentation." This event/talk is structured around a sequence of archive footage segments collected by Alexandrowicz, all shot over the last 5 decades in the city of Hebron. It starts with the cinema newsreels of the late 60's, continues with the public television of the 70's and 80's, the long form documentary films of the 90's and runs all the way till the viral You tube clips of today. What the journey through archives of different periods and formats allows, is not only to visually tell the story of the city and its transformation in the last half century, but to focus on the documentation of the occupation as a phenomenon, to look at the way the documentation itself has evolved during this period of time and to raise questions about the relationship and affect between political and social reality and its documentation.