School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Filmography:

• "I love you all"
  An essay about social control and security through the surveillance cameras images of the ex-Stasi in Germany.
  co-directed with Audrey Maurion, documentary, 35mm, 98 minutes, 2004
• "Route 181, fragments of a journey in Palestine-Israel"
  A documentary road-movie shot on the virtual border between Palestinians and Israelis as decided in UN Resolution 181 for the partition of Palestine.
  Co-directed with Michel Khleifi, documentary, video, 272 minutes, 2003
• "The specialist"
  The trial of Adolf Eichmann based on archive material and inspired by Eichmann in Jerusalem, Report on the banality of evil by Hannah Arendt.
  Documentary, 35mm, 128 minutes, 1999
• "Burundi, under terror"
  Photographic composition about the terror in Burundi, using the reportage of the photographer Alexis Cordesse.
  Documentary, 35mm, 13 minutes, 1997
• "Itsembatsemba, Rwanda one genocide later"   
  Photographic composition about the memory of the genocide in Rwanda, using the reportage of the photographer Alexis Cordesse.
  Documentary, 35mm, 13 minutes, 1996
• "Aqabat-Jaber, peace with no return ?"
  The question of the right to return of Palestinian refugees leaving in the Aqabat-Jaber refugees camp, after the Oslo agreement.
  Documentary, 16mm, 61 minutes, 1995
• "Jerusalems, borderline syndrome"
  Jerusalem, as an object of universal fetichism.
  Docu-drama, 16 mm, 64 minutes, 1994
• "Itgaber, le triomphe sur soi"
  Two parts documentary based on interviews with Professor Yeshayahou Leibowitz, about Science and Values (1st part) and Law and State (2nd part).
  Documentary, video, 2 x 85 minutes, 1993
• "Israland"
  During the first Golfe War, a construction site of a Luna Park south of Tel-Aviv, as a metaphore to Israel existence in the Middle-East.
  Documentary, video, 58 minutes, 1991
• "Izkor, slaves of memory"
  The instrumentalisation of memory in Israeli education system.
  Documentary, 16mm, 97 minutes, 1990
• "Aqabat-Jaber, passing through"
  Every day life of Palestinian refugees in the Aqabat-Jaber camp, in the West Bank.
  Documentary, 16mm, 81 minutes, 1987

Other Audiovisual Works:

• "Scalpel / Skalpel"
  Artistic director of a collection for the European TV channel Arte about the policies of public health.
  Series, 14 x 42 minutes, 2001
• "On the top of the descent"
  One day in the life on a maniaco-depressive man.
  Fiction, 32 minutes, 2001
• “Jerusalem, Jerusalems"
  Conception and direction of a Thema evening about Jerusalem for Arte.
  Fiction & documentary, 4h 30, 1994
• PLP electoral campaign
  Advertising spots for the electoral campaign of the Jewish-Arab party Progressive List for Peace.
  Advertising, 11 x 2 minutes, 1988

Script Writing:

• "Naturalisation, a republican diary"
  A docu-drama feature length about identity and immigration, following the process of naturalisation of an Israeli man in France.
  Co-author with Armelle Laborie, 2002
• "Jaffa, the story of a label"
  The visual history of the highly political label Jaffa oranges.
  1998
• "Robert Brazillac, One among us"
  Portrait of the fascist French writer Robert Brazillac.
  Co-author with Philippe Mesnard, 1996
• "Between the fossil and the Coran"
  Script for a four hours documentary series about Islam in Soviet Union.
  1986

Articles and Publications

• “C’est l’absence de débat qui entraîne la violence” Politis n°792, March 2004
• “Un cinéma de Palestine” Tausend Augen n°29, 2004
• “The right to return” Dialogue n°5, February 2004
• “Au-delà des murs, les frontières symboliques” Pour la Palestine n°35, July 2002
• "La dangereuse confusion des juifs de France" Le Monde, December 7th 2001
• "Crimes contre l'humanité, le temps de la justice, le temps de l'histoire" Le Monde des débats n°27, July-August 2001
• “Archive images: truth or memory” in Experience with truth, transitional justice and the process of truth and reconciliation, Documenta, Kassel 2001
• "L'ardeur patriotique de la télé" Télérama n°2650, October 2000
  "La paix leur fait peur" La Vie, October 2000
• "Never again ! Again and again. When memory serves political violence" in Trauma und Erinnerung / Trauma and memory: cross-cultural Perspectives, directed by Franz Kaltenbeck & Peter Weibel, Editions Passagen Verlag, 2000
• "Images, le marketing de la mémoire" in Des musées d'histoire pour l'avenir, directed by Marie-Hélène Joly & Thomas Compère-Morel, Editions Noêsis, 1998
• "Memoria, archivi. Gli archivi della memoria" in Il racconto della catastrofe, directed by Francesco Monicelli & Carlo Saletti, Cierre Edizioni, 1998
• "Visions of the shoa: transgression or grotesque" with Philippe Mesnard, Artpress n°215, July-August 1996
• "Des chemins de l'humanité vers la bestialité" interview with Yeshayahou Leibowitz, Revue d'études palestiniennes n°37, 1990
• Note de lecture "An uggly face in the mirror - National stereotypes in Hebrew childern's literature" Revue d'études palestiniennes n°29, 1988

Books:

• "Sionisme : une critique juive” ("Zionism : an anthology of Jewish critic") to be published, Editions La Fabrique, Autumn 2005
• “Itgaber, interviews with Yeshayahou Leibowitz” to be published, Editions La Fabrique, 2005
• “Eloge de la désobéissance” ("Praise of desobedience") with Rony Brauman, Editions Fayard / Le Pommier, 1999

Lectures and Public Talks:

• "The anti-zionist thinking” at Congrès Marx, Nanterre University, September 2004
• "Teching history through cinema” at Cinéma, Mémoire et Histoire, Rencontres oranaises du cinéma, Alençon, June 2004
• “Re-appropriation of memory in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” at Arab contemporary representations, critical discurses and political thinking, San Sebastian, June 2004
• "Analogical memory, Aus Liebe zu Volk" in Akademie der Künst, Berlin, May 2004
• "The new wall" Akademie der Künst, Berlin, Avril 2004
• "Mental borders” in Negociations: from of peace of land to a land of peace Toronto University, June 2003
• “Opposition and dissidence” in Peace and the international institutions, Rottary Center for International Studies in Peace and Conflict resolution, Paris, May 2000
• "Instrumentalisation of memory in Israel" Paideia Institute, European Institute for Jewish studies in Sweden, February 2003
• “Crossing borders” in Conflict, Ma'alot Tar Shira, Israël, Février-Mars 2003
• "Filming history" Studio National d’Arts contemporains Le Fresnoy, February 2003
• “The memory factor in the relationship between Israel and the international community”  Institute of Political Studies, Paris, September 2002
• “Historical testimony and the limits of representations” in Transitional justice and the process of truth and reconciliation, Documenta 11 Platform 2, New Dehli, May 2001
• “Archive, a look on history” in Les jeux de la mémoire dans le documentaire historique, National Audiovisual Institute (INA), Paris, November 1999
• “International justice, image and memory” National Justice School (ENM), Bordeaux, 1999
• “Cinema = memory ?” in Heritage and Memory, European Institute of cultural itineraries, Sibiu Romania, September 1999
• “Perpetrators and victims’ representation” in Il testimone Primo dixième anniversaire de la mort de Primo Levi, Vérone Italie, March 1998
• “When memory serves political violence” in Trauma und Erinnerung / Trauma and memory: cross-cultural Perspectives, Neue Galerie, Graz Autriche, November 1999
• “Archives, manipulation and representation” in Avec le temps, Cinémathèque de Toulouse, January 1999

Collective Arts Exhibits:

• “Manifesta 5 European Biennial of Contemporary Art” San Sebastian, Spain, June-September 2004
• “Strangers: the first ICP Triennal of photography and video” International Center of Photography, New-York and Steidl, Göttigen, September-November 2003
• “Documenta 11” Kassel, Juin-Septembre 2002

Produced with Ms Armelle Laborie:

•  “Letter to my sister” documentary by Habiba Djahnine, in progress
• “History of crambs” documentary by Erica Lehmann, in progress
• “Ralliés” documentary by Adila Bennedjaï-Zou & Joseph Confavreux, 52min., 2003
• “Insolites” documentary series, 8x26min., 2003
• “500 dunam on the Moon” documentary by Rachel Leah Jones, 47min., 2002
• “Gardeners of the Martyrs’ street” doc by Leïla Habchi & Benoît Prin, 81min., 2002
• “Au pays de citron” documentary by Frédéric Touchard, 52min.,
• “Brass-band goes on !” documentary by Frédéric Touchard, 52min.,  2000
• “Populations in danger” documentary series, 4x13min., 1997
• “Maashi” fiction by Menem Richa, 12 min., 1994

Eyal Sivan is member of the editorial board of La Fabrique, publishing house in Paris.

Awards

• ''I Love You All''
  First prize Taiwan IFF Taiwan 2005
  Best Documentary Milan IFF  Italy 2005
• ''Route 181, Fragments of a journey in Palestine-Israel''
  First Prize Human Rights Film Festival , Paris, 2004
  Mayor Prize Yamagata, Japon 2005
• ''The Specialist''
  Best French Documentary, by The Authors Society, France 2001
  Adolf Grimme Golden Price Germany, 2001
  France Cinema prize Florence, 1999
  Prix du Troisième Millénaire du Vatican, Rome, 1999
• ''Itsembatsemba, Rwanda one genocide later''
  Jury’s special mention, Internation Film Festival Bilbao, 1997
  Merit Award, San Francisco Film Festival, 1997
• ''Izkor, slaves of memory''
  Procirep Prize & jury's special mention, FIPA 1991
  Investigation Prize Documentaries European Biennale, Marseilles 1991
  Golden Lens, Tel Aviv Film Festival 1991
• "Aqabat-Jaber, passing through"
  Jury's Great Prize, Cinéma du Réel Film Festival, Paris 1987
  Golden Crown, Festikon, Amsterdam 1988
  Prix Air France-Radio France, Belfort Film Festival, 1988
  Best social-political Documentary International Film Festival, Oakland 1988
  Jury’s Special Mention Internationale Filmwoche, Mannheim 1988