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

January 17–March 2

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

January 27–February 9

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 1–9

The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

February 3–16

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

February 7–14

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

February 21–March 10

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

February 22

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

February 23–24

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue