Director: David Perlov
Year: 1973-1983
Country: Israel
Language(s): English | Hebrew
Subtitles: English | French | Italian | Dutch | Spanish | Hebrew
Length: 312 mins
Format: PAL | R0
Colour: Colour
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1
Certificate: E
Synopsis
"May 1973, I buy a camera. I want to start filming, by myself and for myself. Professional cinema does no longer attract me. To look for something else. I want to approach the everyday. Above all in anonymity. It takes time to learn how to do it.' With these words, David Perlov starts his epic film Diary. Shot over a period of three decades, first on 16mm and later on video (Updated Diary, 1990-1999), it is considered today the most striking work in Israeli documentary filmmaking."
Ariel Schweitzer, Cahiers du Cinema
"How to capture a psychological state, how to seize a character, how to describe a place: my choices are very subjective. My personality as an author is very dominant. I use the device of cinema as an intermediary between reality and the viewer. I impose my vision on the materials.
From this point of view, my "Diary" is my identity card. I try to reach the fragile border between life and art."
David Perlov
Film Listing
The 7 DVD Box Set contains:
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Diary 1 (1973-1977, 52 mins)
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Diary 2 (1978-1980, 52 mins)
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Diary 3 (1981-1982, 52 mins)
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Diary 4 (1982-1983, 52 mins)
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Diary 5 (1983, 52 mins)
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Diary 6 (1983, 52 mins)
Special Features
- Bonus DVD:
My stills (1952-2002, 58 mins)
A booklet including:
- Poem by Nathan Zach
- David Perlov: A Passion for the Everyday, by Ariel Schweitzer
- The View from Perlov, by Uri Klein
- An Interview with David Perlov, by Irma Klein and Uri Klein
- Four years after, Uri Klein interviews David Perlov
- The Diary of David Perlov, by Talya Halkin
- Perlov, Mekas, Morder, Lehman and the Others: in Search of the Unpredictable Quiverings of Daily Life, by Dominique Bluher
- About the bonus My stills 1952/2002
- Angelitos Negros lyrics
Related
David Perlov's Biography
