Friday | March 31, 2006 9:15 pm

August, A Moment Before the Eruption
(Aout, avant l’explosion)

Directed by Avi Mograbi.
With Meital Dohan, Adi Ezroni, Avi Mograbi.
Israel/France, 2002, digital video, color, 72 min.
Hebrew with English subtitles.

Avi Mograbi, a filmmaker known for both his strong political opinions and his sense of humor, decides to document the anger and unrest he witnesses in his homeland of Israel during August of 2001. Using only a video camera—no script, no cast, no crew—Mograbi tries to make sense of the complex problems facing Israel. A deeply personal film, August: A Moment Before the Eruption is, like its director, at turns tragic and comic.

March 24 – April 5, 2006

Contested Realities: Pseudodocumentary and Other Staged Events

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

March 3–April 6

Museum Hours: Mati Diop’s Dahomey

March 7–April 12

Albert Serra, or Cinematic Time Regained

April 4–May 5

Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy

April 7

The Shochiku Centennial Collection

April 11–May 9

Planet at 50

April 13

The Yugoslav Junction Continues!

April 14

Theo Anthony, Subject to Review

April 17

The Ideal Cinematheque of the Outskirts of the World