1341 Frames
of Love and War
Feature Documentary
Israel 2022
90 min
Hebrew, English Subtitles,
DCP
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1341 Frames of Love and War
Credits
Director: Ran Tal
Producers: Ran Tal, Sarig Peker
Executive Producer: Yael Melamede, Nancy Pomagrin
Editor: Nili Feller
Line Producer: Karin Etedgi
Sound Design: Aviv Aldema
Graphic Design: Noa Haber
Synopsis
As Israel’s most celebrated war photographer Micha Bar-Am mines his extraordinary archive of over half a million negatives, questions and self-doubt surface, in a profound exploration of photography, memory, and the personal cost of a life devoted to recording a conflict.
For a year and a half, the acclaimed photo-journalist Micha Bar-Am allowed director Ran Tal to enter his vast archive of negatives. Composed entirely of images that Bar-Am took over more than fifty years, 1341 Frames of Love and War reveals the enormous price that comes along with documenting atrocities and wars. "The most horrible things are sometimes aesthetic," says Bar-Am.
1341 Frames provides an intimate portrait of an artist and a meditation on memory, violence and identity. Beyond this narrative tribute, the film offers a unique cinematic, visual, and sensory experience that explores the relationship between sound and picture, and between movement and stillness, it explores how to imbue still photography with movement on the one hand, while freezing cinematic movement to distill meaning and emotion on the other. It is a complex love letter to the power, beauty and horror of photographic imagery.
Awards
Best Director - DocAviv
Best Editing - DocAviv
Kadar Award - DocAviv
Best Documentary - UK Jewish Film Festival 2023
Best Documentary - Warsaw Jewish Film Festival 2022
Best Documentary - Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2022
Best Director Documentary Feature – Center Film Festival
Read Reviews
Nirit Anderman - Haaretz (Hebrew)
Yael Shenker - Portfolio (Hebrew)
Gili Izikovich, Niv Hadas - Haaretz Podcast (Hebrew)
Nick Holdsworth - Modern Times
Jay Weissberg - The Film Verdict
Ann Maniglier Brigitte Ollier - Blind Magazine
Festivals
World Premiere | Berlinale - 2022
Telluride Film Festival - 2022
Docaviv FIlm festival - 2022
Krakow IFF - 2022
Sheffield DocFest - 2022
Jewish Film Festival Berlin | Brandenburg - 2022
Rhodope Documentary Film - 2022
Jewish International Film Festival Australia - 2022
Athens International Film festival - 2022
Cork International Film Festival - 2022
Zagreb Festival of Tolerance - 2022
Karala IFF - 2022
Vancouver International Film Festival - 2022
Other Israel Festival - 2022
Ambulante Film Festival - 2022
Morelia Film Festival - 2022
Warsaw Jewish FF - 2022
Free Zone Human Rights FF - 2022
UK Jewish Film Festival - 2022
Warsaw Jewish FF - 2022
Cinemamed - 2022
Center Film Festival - 2023
Miami Jewish Film Festival 2023
Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival 2023
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2023
Cincinnati Jewish Film Festival 2023
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2023
Savannah Jewish Film Festival 2023
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival 2023
92nd St Y/Manhattan 2023
Chicago Israeli Jewish Film Festival 2023
The National Center For Jewish Film, 2023
Winnipeg Jewish Film Festival 2023
Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2023
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2023
Moscow Jewish Film Festival 2023
IsraFest Foundation Beverly Hills 2023
Boulder Jewish Film Festival 2023
Minnesota Jewish Film Festival 2023
Maine Jewish Film Festival 2023
Austin Jewish Film Festival 2023
Seret International Film Festival 22\023
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