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

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco

November 21–December 14

Once There Was History ... Andrzej Wajda at 100