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24.5.24
Friday
9:30

Dani Karavan at the Weizmann Institute | Guided tour, discussion, and cinematic portrait

To mark three years since the passing of environmental artist and sculptor Dani Karavan (1930-2021), recipient of the Israel Prize for Sculpture in 1977, who created some 80 environmental sculptures in Israel and around the world, including the Weizmann Institute of Science campus, a guided art event featuring two of his works on campus, a talk on humanism, human rights and public art, and a screening of a cinematic portrait of the artist.

 

10:00  'Monument in memory of the victims of the Holocaust' | Memorial Plaza at the Weizmann Estate
Guided tour in the northern square of the Weizmann Estate. 
duration: approx. 20 minutes.

 

11:00  'From the tree of knowledge to the tree of life' | Clore Dormitories
Guided tour at the Clore student dormitories, near the main entrance to the Weizmann Institute of Science. duration: approx. 20 minutes

 

11:45 Karavan, humanism and public art | Michael Sela Auditorium
A symposium with film clips and a discussion about Karavan’s unique artistic movement, on the drama of the refugee, Karavan's tribute to the philosopher and cultural researcher, Walter Benjamin, and the connection between humanism and art in the public sphere. 
Approx. 50 minutes, in the Michael Sela Auditorium.

 

12:30 Dani Karavan | The film by Barak Heymann, Michael Sela Auditorium
Dani Karavan was almost 90 years old when he set out on an emotional and political journey during which his complex and tumultuous character was revealed. The film 'Dani Karavan' behaves just like the man and the artist – simple and complex at the same time, emotional and intimate but far from melodramatic, full of pain but also saturated with humor, passion and joy of life. Barak Heymann's film, “High Maintenance”, winner of the Best Editing award at the Jerusalem Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature Film at the Jozi Film Festival in South Africa, Best Documentary at the Israeli Film Festival in Paris, and dozens of commendations at other festivals around the world.

 

Israel 2020, 66 minutes, Hebrew, English, French, Italian, Arabic, in the Michael Sela Auditorium

 

Please note: Parking next to the David Lopatie Conference Center. From 09:15, there will be shuttle transportation from the Lopatie Center to Memorial Plaza in the Weizmann Estate, and back to the Clore dormitories after the tour, near the main entrance of the Institute and the Michael Sela Auditorium. Subject to change, please follow the ‘Art & Culture at Sela’ website for updates.

In collaboration with Yad Weizmann, Art & Culture at Sela, Dani Karavan Studio and Marcel Art Projects.
 

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20.2
Thursday
20:00

On Listening | Prof. David Harel, Prof. Ruth Kanner and the Ruth Kanner Theater Group

A scientist listens to the music of words. A woman of the theater listens to the scientist. The actors of the theater group listen to both and perform. 

A conversation and acting segments on the connection between hearing and listening, intention and understanding. 

Professor Ruth Kanner - a theater director and creator, who has developed a unique and groundbreaking stage language over the years, and Professor David Harel - Israel Prize recipient in 2004, former dean of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, whose research deals with tools that help artificial intelligence listen, decode and interpret spoken text. 
The Ruth Kanner Theater Group – Since 1988, has been exploring processes on stage to deepen the means of expression in acting, movement, voice work, sound and visual images, stemming from deep listening to personal and artistic truth. 

Duration: approx. 1.5 hours.
 
24.2
Monday
20:00

The Property | Screening and dialog with Dana Modan

A journey full of secrets and deceptions, which begins with real estate issues but actually devotes itself to matters of the heart, in Dana Modan’s first film as director, based on a graphic novel with family autobiographical elements, written and illustrated by her sister, Rutu Modan.



Regina and her granddaughter Mika embark on a journey to Poland to reclaim their family property seized during World War II. 
But their quest quickly unravels. Regina unexpectedly decides to abandon the mission entirely, leaving Mika lost and confused. 
To complicate matters further, an irritating distant relative keeps appearing at every turn. Just as Mika finds herself falling for a charming tour guide, Regina seizes the opportunity to pursue her own hidden agenda: finding her long-lost love, from whom she was separated seventy years ago.

 

‘The Property’ blends the different and similar characteristics of the Modan sisters as creators, and echoes their previous works: on the one hand, the pull to an ironic gaze and to comic situations steeped in black humor, evident in the television series created by Dana (‘Love Hurts’, ‘Significant Other’, ‘Aviram Katz’), and on the other hand, a dreamy-melancholic atmosphere that characterizes Rutu’s stories and illustrations. Cinematographer Yaron Scharf does a good job of translating the visual perspective of the illustrator Modan into film, and also of capturing Warsaw in a way that blurs its past and its present into a uniform, theatrical time, which well serves the journey that the grandmother and granddaughter take down memory lane.” (Shani Litman, Haaretz)
 

StageTalk Following the screening, a conversation with the film director Dana Modan