“Not just a valuable crash course in digital-age hermeneutics, this is a gauntlet thrown down to film-makers with an old-fashioned belief in the truth.”
Free and open to the public. (Masking required.) More Info
Venue
Film Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive Durham,
NC
27705
Description
Free Film Screening:
The Viewing Booth (Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, 2019, 71 min, USA, in English, Hebrew, and Arabic with English subtitles, Color, DCP)
“I’m looking for something to support what I think.” So declares Maia Levy, the subject of Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s astonishing documentary exploring the limits of filmic empathy and its capacity for generating political change. In a lab-like environment, Maia Levy, a young American woman, watches videos portraying life in the West Bank city of Hebron, while verbalizing her thoughts and feelings in real time. Although she is an enthusiastic supporter of Israel, the images in the videos, disseminated for the most part by the Human Rights organization B’Tselem, contradict some of Maia’s deep-seated beliefs. Empathy; anger; embarrassment; personal biases and healthy curiosity – all play out before our eyes as we watch her watch the images created by the Occupation. The Viewing Booth offers a fascinating exploration of a space ostensibly off-limits to cinema – the internal experience of the viewer.
Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public. (COVID-19 Info)
