Museum Cinema / Germany Year Zero, 1948

At evening time there shall be light | A Cinematic View of the Museum’s Exhibitions
Curator: Karin Rywkind Segal

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is proud to present a rich weekend of films, carefully selected in dialogue with the current exhibition season—shows conceived in response to the turbulent times in which we are living. These include Year Zero, The Day is Gone: 100 Years of the New Objectivity, andVision of the New Bones: Jewish Imaginations after 1940. The film program accompanies these exhibitions, enriching and deepening the visitor experience.

The screenings will be accompanied by introductions from the Museum’s curators and guest lecturers. Some screenings will take place in the galleries.

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Germany Year Zero
Director: Roberto Rossellini | With: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze | Italy, 1948 | 78 min. | German; Hebrew subtitles

The third part of Rossellini’s neorealist war trilogy (preceded by Rome, Open City and Paisà) is its most radical and distressing chapter. It presents a portrait of war-ravaged Berlin seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. Edmund lives among the ruins with his sick father and older brother and sister, wandering unsupervised through the devastated city. As the family’s sole provider, he is drawn into black-market dealings and falls under the sinister influence of a former teacher—a pedophile sympathetic to the Nazi ideology.

Germany, Year Zero is a piercing and heartbreaking examination of the consequences of fascism, both on society and on the individual.

The screening is made possible through the generous support of the Embassy of Italy in Israel.

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The films screened over the weekend are in dialogue with the exhibitions currently on view at the Museum, including Year Zero, andVision of the New Bones: Jewish Imaginations after 1940, as well as a recently presented exhibition, The Day is Gone: 100 Years of the New Objectivity. Like the artworks, they emerge from the history of twentieth-century Europe—particularly in the context of the World Wars and their aftermath—and span historical rupture, a sober gaze at reality, and a search for new horizons of hope. In the shared space of cinema and visual art, both engage with questions of identity, memory, and the human condition in times of upheaval and uncertainty, offering distinct yet resonant ways of reflecting on similar experiences.

We invite you to visit the exhibitions to expand your viewing experience. An intimate encounter with the artworks on view can deepen your understanding of the social contexts reflected in the films.

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Note: Film introductions will be in Hebrew.
The number of participants is limited | Advance reservations are required for all participants.
Participation in the tour includes entrance ticket to the Museum.

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