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3.2.25
Monday
20:00

DIS-COVER Yair Assulin and Professor Idan Segev

Yair Assulin, writer and thinker, winner of the Sapir Prize for a Debut Novel in 2011, the Ministry of Culture Prize and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works in 2016. He previously taught Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University, writes a regular column in Haaretz newspaper and hosts the thought program on ‘Kan’.


Idan Segev is a Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the Center for Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University, a senior partner in the Blue Brain Project (Switzerland) and the Human Brain Project (EU), and one of the founders of Frontiers, the international scientific journal. His main field of interest is the study of neurons and neural networks in mammalian and human brains, with the aim of understanding “what makes humans unique.” Idan is also interested in the connection between the brain and art, and has run fascinating meetings between artists and scientists.


The dialog will address the revolutionary times we live in – the changing of the world order – the great challenges and opportunities facing humanity today, and the burning questions that lie ahead. It will illuminate the critical importance of partnerships between researchers in the natural sciences and those in the social sciences and humanities, so that we can thrive in a new, fruitful and creative world – humanity as a whole, and Israeli society in particular. 

Under the auspices of The Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.
 

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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