Ayelet Dekel
By Ayelet Dekel
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The Schmooze Hardcore Klezmer: Talking With Ramzailech
Crossposted from Midnight East. Photos by Gangi. Thirty seconds into the music bodies are moving on the dance floor, my pulse is synched to the beat, and electric guitar and drums are crashing through my bloodstream. Then the wail of the clarinet takes over my brain and I’m singing along with the band — in…
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The Schmooze How To Make a Film About Films That Were Never Made
Image from “The Boat,” directed by Nir Bergman in “Sharon Amrani: Remember His Name.” Crossposted from Midnight East Ten years ago, on September 8, 2001, a young man drowned in the Mediterranean, just off Manta Ray beach in Tel Aviv. “Bonfire Night” (1998), his graduation film for the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School Jerusalem,…
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The Schmooze Magic and Wonder at the International Festival of Puppet Theater
Patricia O’Donovan in ‘A Touch of Light.’ Photo by Ayelet Dekel. Crossposted from Midnight East Puppetry is one of the most radical forms of theater I have seen in Israel in recent years. Without fanfare, often working with the simplest materials, puppet artists vanquish the assumptions of popular theater and of “what works.” They create…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: There’s No Therapy Like Dolphin Therapy
Crossposted from Midnight East An adventure of the heart, mind and sea, “Dolphin Boy,” screening August 1 to 15 at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, dives into the blue mystery of the ocean and its redemptive powers with all the suspense of a thriller. Written and directed by Dani Menkin and Yonatan Nir, the film tells…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: How To Embrace Your Inner Cat Lady
Crossposted from Midnight East “Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats,” a film by Jorge Gurvich, opened July 21 in Israeli theaters. I saw the film for the first time at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2009, when Rita Zohar won an award for her performance as the movie’s protagonist, Yolanda Moskowitz. Seeing the film again, I…
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The Schmooze Amid Polish Anti-Semitism, a Magical Australia of the Mind
Courtesy of Transfax Film Production Crossposted from Midnight East The upper floor of an apartment building hides a secret world tied to a rope, waiting to be animated by the voice and imagination of a boy, Tadek (Jakub Wróblewski). Yet soon after he pulls that world — a model of Australia — out of its…
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Culture They Know One
The audience clapped and cheered as the curtain parted to reveal 15 dancers in black suits standing in a semicircle in front of wooden folding chairs. The dancers were performing Ohad Naharin’s “Ehad Mi Yodea” — based on the song “Who Knows One” in the Passover Haggadah — as the closing number of a recent…
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