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.