Ari Libsker ( he, ארי ליבסקר, born 1972 in

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), is an Israeli filmmaker and journalist. He has made several documentaries. His film '' Stalags'' (2008) featured in ''The New York Times'' and won several awards. In March 2012 he curated the exhibition "Iran", which protests what he views as "panic over the Iranian atomic bomb."

Film making

One of his first films, ''Circumcision'' (Israel 2004, 30 min, channel 2) dealt with the harmful effects of

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. Channel 2 tried to censor the movie and in the end broadcast it at a late hour. The movie got a lot of response and criticism. Libsker is a film tutor and a business journalist for

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magazine (''

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''), the Israeli financial paper. In the late 1990s, he founded, with others the "Free Academy" group. In 2002 he starred as an actor in the short Baboon group film depicting the life of a Tel Avivan

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. Since 2004 he co-edits Maayan Magazine, a magazine of poetry and ideas, and the film magazine '' Maarvon''. One of their exhibitions was named "I Slept with Ari Libsker" and was held on a roof in Tel Aviv, another one was named "Sharon" on the connection between the wealthy

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area in Israel and the former PM

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. In May 2006 Libsker presented the video work ''Magic 2'' at the exhibition ''Doron'', which refers to

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, exhibited in the Minshar gallery of

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

. It dealt with art and workers rights. In 2007 Libsker worked on the feature documentary film '' Stalags''. During the early 1960s in Israel and the

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masochistic brutal sex relationship between Nazi women wardens and concentration camp prisoners. The film analyzes the reasons behind the phenomenon. On September 6, 2007, Libsker was interviewed by ''

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'' on pre-release of his film. He said in part, "I realized that the first Holocaust pictures I saw, as one who grew up here, were of naked women. We were in elementary school. I remember how embarrassed we were." A year later Libsker completed The Home Poem (Israel 2006, 60 min.) a movie that followed three people, one of them his grandmother and their relation to home. (The name "Home Poem" is in respect to the same-titled book by poet

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). On 2010 he pretended to be a rich Croatian real estate genius to infiltrate the apartment of defense minister

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and try to purchase it from his wife Nili, for a ''

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'' Hebrew magazine article.

References

External links

* * * On the Stalags premiere in The

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Stalags
Hebrew, Complete film from WALLA!YES Israeli portal.
Libsker's Art Videos
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"Eat And Drink Before Your Dead-Line"
An article by Ari Libsker .
''Stalags''
film by Ari Libsker, 2007.
''Circumcision''
film by Ari Libsker, 2004. {{DEFAULTSORT:Libsker, Ari 1972 births Living people Israeli film directors Israeli journalists