THE FIRST U.S. RETROSPECTIVE OF WORK FROM THE SAM SPIEGEL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL, JERUSALEM
Series Features Ten Films and One Video by Students from Israel's
Premier Film School The Sam Spiegel Film and Television School,
Jerusalem
November 9–12, 1996
Founded in 1989 as a joint initiative of the Jerusalem Foundation and the
Israel Ministry of Education and Culture, the Sam Spiegel Film and Television
School is Israel's national training center for young filmmakers.
The Sam Spiegel Film and Television School,
Jerusalem is the first presentation mounted in the
United States of work by filmmakers from this exciting new center. The
retrospective, which runs from November 9 through November 12 at The Museum of
Modern Art, features ten films and one videotape made between 1992 and
1996.
At the heart of the school's rigorous four-year curriculum is an emphasis
on the short narrative film and the emotional engagement of the audience. The
school has invigorated filmmaking in Israel; its works are applauded at
international festivals and its students going on to careers in the growing
Israeli film and television industry.
The Sam Spiegel Film and Television School,
Jerusalem was organized by
Laurence Kardish, Curator and Coordinator of Film Exhibitions, Department of
Film and Video, The Museum of Modern Art, and Renen Schorr, Director, the Sam
Spiegel Film and Television School.
