FICTION & DOCUMENTARY
FICTION & DOCUMENTARY
FICTION & DOCUMENTARY
FICTION & DOCUMENTARY
Miss Holocaust Survivor
Documentary, 75 min, 2020
Synopsis: Every year since 2011, a unique beauty contest takes place in Haifa. The contestants are female survivors of the Holocaust. In the midst of this flashy spectacle, their personal traumas remain as deep as ever.
Director and Editor: Eytan Ipeker
Producer: Yoel Meranda (Kamara - Turkey)
Co-Producers: Eitan Mansuri and Jonathan Doweck (Spiro Films - Israel), Kristina Konrad (Welt Film), Carine Chichkowsky (Survivance - France)
Supported by New Film Fund (Turkey)
Selected to Sheffield/Doc MeetMarket 2018
Selected to Meetings on the Bridge 2019 (winner of Color-Up Award)
(currently in production)
EXPERIMENTAL VIDEOS
Over the years, I've made several experimental abstract videos. They are mostly silent and best experienced in a screening room.
In Eytan Ipeker’s austere "Cloud", a sea of pixilated black and white shapes gives way to fuzziness and then suggestive pulsing curves, as if biological forms were starting to emerge.
- Fred Camper (Chicago Reader)
“Science Lab” is a visual compendium of experimental techniques, all uncannily mined from footage of the filmmaker's piano keys.
- TIFF Program Notes
"Peeling" bears patches of color on pitch black, like brush strokes that never quite add up. (...) The object behind this abstraction, a piano, is missing both visually and aurally. İpeker’s dark and silent room gives a sense of meditative calmness among the other works that depend predominantly on material culture and objects.
- Lara Fresco, curator
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
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"Traffic" - Video Art Special Award / 9th Intl. Panorama of Independent Film & Video (Greece)
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"Yearning" - Best Experimental Film / 30th IFSAK National Short and Doc Film Festival (Turkey)
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"Tribute to Bubsy" - Opening Program for Chicago Onion City Experimental Film Festival (USA)
SCREENINGS
Toronto International Film Festival • Edinburgh International Film Festival • Chicago Onion City Experimental Film Festival • Rome Abstracta Film Festival • Experiments in Cinema 5.1 • Pera Museum • Fresh Abstractions (Thailand) • Lucca Film Festival • International Panorama of Independent Film & Video (Greece) • Hallwals Contemporary Arts Center • Platforma Zero Five (Greece) • Festival Miden (Greece) • Ankara International Film Festival
Click here for detailed info screenings.
REVIEWS & PROGRAM NOTES
TIFF Program Notes on "Science Lab" - 17.08.2010
Film critic Fred Camper's comments on "Cloud" - Chicago Reader , 17.06.2010
"Visual Music Masters" by Adriano Abbado, 2018 (brief mention on p.105)
Program Notes by Efe Murad for FOL Screening - FOL Booklet, 13.10.2017
Lines of Landscape Blog on "Three Warning Signs" - Lines of Landscape, 01.07.2012
Curator Lara Fresko's notes on "Peeling" - 17.05.2012
EXPERIMENTAL FILMOGRAPHY
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Tribute to Busby (2014)
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Peeling (2011)
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Siamese (2011)
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Three Warning Signs (2011)
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Nothing (2010)
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The Yearning (2010)
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Legend of Nile (2009)
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Black or White (2009)
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The Eternal Wink (2009)
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Zero (2009)
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So Abstract! (2009)
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Science Lab (2007)
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Passion of Anna (2007)
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Fuguetta for Piano (2007)
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Traffic (2006)
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Composition for Piano (2006)
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Composition for Piano & City (2002)
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Abstract#1 (2001)