JAFFA, THE ORANGE’S CLOCKWORK

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.