Via Dolorosa
France2023animated11'Iluminacja (2024)
Ten days before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the animation artist returns to the streets of Jerusalem where she wandered as a teenager. In an attempt to find her lost youth, she grasps the fleeting images of the city's vibrant nightlife. Like a kaleidoscope, scenes of violence, lust and stimulants interspersed with religious symbols swirl here. A bold, subjective look at coming of age in a city laden with history and rituals, brimming with energy, vibrating with electronic and punk music, uncompromisingly combining the sacred with the profane.
- directed by
- Rachel Gutgarts
Born in 1992 in Jerusalem. Graduated from the Animation Department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (BFA), with a focus on experimental techniques, mainly animated silk screen prints. "A Love Letter to the One I Made Up" (graduation film, 2017) was screened at many film and animation festivals around the world. Rachel's practice consists of printing animated frames in various analog techniques such as gelatin print, cyanotype and silk screen print, drawing inspiration from the history of photography and early photographic techniques alongside soviet design.
- script
- Einat Gaulan, Rachel Gutgarts
- animated by
- Rachel Gutgarts
- editing
- Albane du Plessix
- production
- Emmanuel Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron (Miyu Productions)
- Photo
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