Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork

Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork narrates the visual history of the famous citrus fruit that originated in Palestine and has been known worldwide for centuries as “the Jaffa orange”. The history of the orange is the history of this land. Through photography and cinema, poetry, paintings, the words of workers in the citrus industry and historians, through memory and present mythologies, Palestinians and Israelis cross paths and come together. The close reading of the Jaffa brand’s visual representation is a reflection on western orientalist phantasms surrounding the “Holy land” and the “State of Israel” and a tool by which to reveal the untold story of what was once a communal industry and symbol to arabs and Jews in Palestine.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Script: Eyal Sivan
Cinematography: David Zarif, Vincent Fooy, Remi Laine, Shafir Sarusi
Editing: Audrey Maurion
Sound: Oren Raviv, Jean-Jacques Quinet, Asher Saraga
Music: Jean-Jacques Quinet
Production: Trabelsi Productions, Israel t. +9723566 0398 f. +972 3560 0286 info@trabelsiproductions.com www.trabelsiproductions.com & Alma Films & The Factory
Producers: Osnat Trabelsi, Arik Bernstein, Frank Eskenazi
Format: DigiBeta Color
Production Country: Israel-France-Belgium-Germany
Production Year: 2009
Duration: 88
Contact: CAT & DoCS, France Catherine Le Clef t. +33 1 4459 6353 cat@catndocs.com www.catndocs.com
First Prize for Best Documentary Filmmaker - milano Doc FF, Italy 2009 
First Prize for Editing - Palermo Solelune, Italy 2010
Ciutat de Reus Award to the Best movie - Memorimage Festival, Spain 2010

Eyal Sivan

Eyal Sivan was born in 1964 in Haifa, Israel, and grew up in Jerusalem. After working as a professional fashion photographer in Tel Aviv, he left Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. Ever since, he has been splitting his time between Europe and Israel. Known for his controversial films, he has directed more than 10 political documentaries, which have won awards worldwide, and produced many others. His body of work has been screened and garnered distinctions at prestigious international festivals. Apart from theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, his films are regularly screened in major art shows around the world. He publishes papers and essays and gives lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes, the political use of memory, genocide and issues of representation, etc. He is the founder and the artistic director of the Paris-based documentary film production company momento! and the film distribution agency Scalpel. He is the founder and Chief Editor of South Cinema Notebooks - a journal of cinema and political criticism, edited by the Sapir Academic College in Israel where he regularly lectures. He is member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing house La Fabrique. In the last years, Sivan was Reader (associate professor) in Media Production at the school of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI), at the University of East London (UEL) were he was co-leading the MA program in Film, video and new media. Currently, he is an Honorary Fellow at University of Exeter UK, he is teaching at the Master's program in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam.

Filmography

1987 Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through 1990 Izkor, Slaves of memory
1991 Israland (TV)
1993 Itgaber, He Will overcome
1994 Jerusalem(s), Borderline Syndrome 1995 Aqabat-Jaber, Peace with Νo Return?
1996 Itsembatsemba, Rwanda οne Genocide Later (short)
1997 Burundi, under Terror (short)
1999 The Specialist, Portrait of a modern Criminal
2001 On the Top of the Descent (short) 2003 Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (co-direction)
2004 I Love You All (co-direction)
2005 Faces of the Fallen (TV)
2007 Citizens K, the Twin Brothers (TV)
2009 Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork
2012 Common State, Potential Conversation (1)