Chapter Irresistible charm of simple ideas. The films by Iris Zaki
The article is an analysis of the work of Israeli filmmaker Iris Zaki. Her successive films (My Kosher Shifts, Women in Sink, Unsettling) address increasingly difficult political and ethical issues concerning the Jewish world and Jewish-Palestinian relations, with a succession of topics including an...
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| description | The article is an analysis of the work of Israeli filmmaker Iris Zaki. Her successive films (My Kosher Shifts, Women in Sink, Unsettling) address increasingly difficult political and ethical issues concerning the Jewish world and Jewish-Palestinian relations, with a succession of topics including an ultra-Orthodox Jewish hotel in London, a Palestinian-run hairdressing salon whose clients are both Jewish and Palestinian, and the voice of a new generation of Jews living in a settlement established on former Palestinian land. Among the crucial themes are the questions of identity, ethnicity, religion, differences and relationships. Particularly in the first two films, Zaki’s positioning of herself as a working person (receptionist, hairdresser’s helper) is interesting – it allows Zaki to create a relationship with the subjects she talks to and to redefine hierarchical relations. Zaki’s filming method, which she called an „abandoned camera”, is reminiscent of the traditional fly-on-the-wall approach, but in this case there is additional meaning – „abandoning” the camera allows her to step in front of it and to put the embodied relationship-conversation at the center of filming. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1565102025-03-07T15:23:15Z Chapter Irresistible charm of simple ideas. The films by Iris Zaki Sikora, Sławomir city ethnographic research cultural anthropology city in an interdisciplinary perspective urban studies The article is an analysis of the work of Israeli filmmaker Iris Zaki. Her successive films (My Kosher Shifts, Women in Sink, Unsettling) address increasingly difficult political and ethical issues concerning the Jewish world and Jewish-Palestinian relations, with a succession of topics including an ultra-Orthodox Jewish hotel in London, a Palestinian-run hairdressing salon whose clients are both Jewish and Palestinian, and the voice of a new generation of Jews living in a settlement established on former Palestinian land. Among the crucial themes are the questions of identity, ethnicity, religion, differences and relationships. Particularly in the first two films, Zaki’s positioning of herself as a working person (receptionist, hairdresser’s helper) is interesting – it allows Zaki to create a relationship with the subjects she talks to and to redefine hierarchical relations. Zaki’s filming method, which she called an „abandoned camera”, is reminiscent of the traditional fly-on-the-wall approach, but in this case there is additional meaning – „abandoning” the camera allows her to step in front of it and to put the embodied relationship-conversation at the center of filming. 2025-03-07T15:23:13Z 2025-03-07T15:23:13Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788383314099_2160 9788383314099 9788383314082 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/156510 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/763 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8331-408-2.19 The article is an analysis of the work of Israeli filmmaker Iris Zaki. Her successive films (My Kosher Shifts, Women in Sink, Unsettling) address increasingly difficult political and ethical issues concerning the Jewish world and Jewish-Palestinian relations, with a succession of topics including an ultra-Orthodox Jewish hotel in London, a Palestinian-run hairdressing salon whose clients are both Jewish and Palestinian, and the voice of a new generation of Jews living in a settlement established on former Palestinian land. Among the crucial themes are the questions of identity, ethnicity, religion, differences and relationships. Particularly in the first two films, Zaki’s positioning of herself as a working person (receptionist, hairdresser’s helper) is interesting – it allows Zaki to create a relationship with the subjects she talks to and to redefine hierarchical relations. Zaki’s filming method, which she called an „abandoned camera”, is reminiscent of the traditional fly-on-the-wall approach, but in this case there is additional meaning – „abandoning” the camera allows her to step in front of it and to put the embodied relationship-conversation at the center of filming. 10.18778/8331-408-2.19 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788383314099 9788383314082 307-322 open access |
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