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14.3.23
Tuesday
20:00

Life according to Agfa | Assi Dayan

Thirty years after having been published, there is a new and restored digital copy of Assi

Dayan's masterful film, which won first prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival and nine Ophir

Awards (including the Best Film Award), as well as a commendation at the Berlin Film

Festival. It is interesting to watch the events unfolding in retrospect - the moment when Assi

Dayan encapsulates in one night all the mythological signs of Israeli society in a small Tel

Aviv pub which constitutes a kind of microcosm of the local existence in the early 1990s.

Directed and written by: Assi Dayan

Actors: Gila Almagor, Shuli Rand, Irit Frank, Ezra Kafri, Sharon Alexander, Avital

Dicker, Smadar Kilchinsky, Dani Litani

Producers: Rafi Bukai and Yoram Kislev

Duration: 100 minutes

Israel – 1992 Hebrew with translation into English

In collaboration with the Israeli Cinema Fund

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16.3
Monday
20:00

Illusion: The Placebo Effect and Illusions as an Active Ingredient, a meeting with Prof. Asya Rolls

The second meeting in a new series – dialogues with researchers who have written essays on various aspects of illusion in their fields of research, as appeared in the 2026 edition of ‘Poetry of Science’, a periodical published once a year concurrently with the Weizmann Institute’s annual Ofer Lider prize for encouraging creative writing among scientists award ceremony. The editor of ‘Poetry of Science’ is Idan Barir, a translator of poetry and prose from Portuguese, Arabic, English, and Turkish.


“The neural networks involved in positive expectations, those that incite a sense of hope, satisfaction, and motivation, are not limited to the mental realm. They influence the entire body, activate the immune system, and stimulate healing processes. Placebos, in this sense, serve as a portal to understanding the power of the brain to shape a physiological reality – how thought or faith can stimulate actual biological mechanisms.” (Prof. Asya Rolls)


The placebo effect is a phenomenon in which a patient receives a sham treatment, but the brain and the immune system are stimulated into performing an actual healing process. 


Prof. Asya Rolls in a dialogue with Idan Barir, on the potential of understanding the relationship between body and soul, the extent to which physical reality can be based on illusions created in the brain, and the role of faith and hope in the healing process.
Prof. Asya Rolls – Researcher at the School for Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics at Tel Aviv University’s Life Sciences Faculty.

 

Sponsored by the Berginsky Center for the Interface between Science and Humanities
 


Schedule:
16/2 Travels to the Past as Deceptive Illusion, with Prof. Avner Wishnitzer
16/3 The Placebo Effect, with Prof. Asya Rolls
18/5 The Psychedelic Renaissance, with Prof. Shaul Lev-Ran