Museum Cinema / La Jetée, 1962 & Je t'aime, Je t'aime, 1968
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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La Jetée
Director: Chris Marker | With: Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux | France, 1962 | 29 min. | French; Hebrew subtitles
Chris Marker’s only fiction film is one of the most influential and radical works in the history of science fiction. This love story, set in a post-apocalyptic future—exploring time travel and memory—is told almost entirely through still images, with the exception of one brief, pivotal moment.
After the destruction of civilization in World War III, a member of an underground community of survivors is sent by scientists into the past and the future in search of a key to humanity’s salvation. A recurring image of a jetty, first appearing as a childhood memory, gradually emerges as a site where past, present, and future converge in trauma and remembrance. This is a film about how personal memory becomes a force of history, and the emotional cost it exacts. It is a lyrical work that represents the weight and pain of modern history through the language and power of images.
The screening is made possible through the generous support of the Embassy of France in Israel.
Je t’aime, Je t’aime
Director: Alain Resnais | With: Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac | France, 1968 | 91 min. | French; Hebrew subtitles
A suicidal man is recruited by a team of scientists for a time-travel experiment previously tested only on mice. A malfunction traps him in his past, forcing him to relive fragmented moments of memory. From these disjointed images, a story gradually emerges about his lover, whose death may or may not have been caused by him. The past becomes an inescapable space in which love and catastrophe are inseparably intertwined.
In Resnais’s only science fiction film, time travel is non-linear, breaking into shards that challenge the possibility of stable memory or a single truth. He continues his poetic exploration of fate, memory, and time, delving into the human impulse to cling to the past even as it dissolves
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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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