
This short film is based on an incident that took place in Israel in 2010. When Noam Chomsky was invited to give a talk in Birzeit University near Ramallah, he was identified with the radical left by the Israeli border control officials, denied entry to Israel, and sent to Jordan. Shortly after the incident, Dana Weiss from the Israeli Channel 2 met with him at a hotel lobby in Amman for a 40 minute interview. During the interview, deep ideological tensions between Chomsky and Weiss surfaced. In this work, the interview language is cut apart into individual words, and then recomposed into a new monolog told by an invisible, third character. The character’s speech reference’s Chomsky’s linguistic theory.
"CUFF 2015 was actually the first film festival I screened at. I must have been really nervous because I have no recollection of my film screening, or of the Q & A for that matter... I do have amazing memories of the other shorts programs. Taking a day trip with the festival participants and staff to Lagunitas, and chatting over beer and pretzels. And just the depth and breadth of works which I got to experience over the course of the festival. It was a special experience." - Orr Menirom
- Year2014
- Runtime0:10:00
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- FilmmakerOrr Menirom
This short film is based on an incident that took place in Israel in 2010. When Noam Chomsky was invited to give a talk in Birzeit University near Ramallah, he was identified with the radical left by the Israeli border control officials, denied entry to Israel, and sent to Jordan. Shortly after the incident, Dana Weiss from the Israeli Channel 2 met with him at a hotel lobby in Amman for a 40 minute interview. During the interview, deep ideological tensions between Chomsky and Weiss surfaced. In this work, the interview language is cut apart into individual words, and then recomposed into a new monolog told by an invisible, third character. The character’s speech reference’s Chomsky’s linguistic theory.
"CUFF 2015 was actually the first film festival I screened at. I must have been really nervous because I have no recollection of my film screening, or of the Q & A for that matter... I do have amazing memories of the other shorts programs. Taking a day trip with the festival participants and staff to Lagunitas, and chatting over beer and pretzels. And just the depth and breadth of works which I got to experience over the course of the festival. It was a special experience." - Orr Menirom
- Year2014
- Runtime0:10:00
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- FilmmakerOrr Menirom