Aleph Festival presents – A dazzling animated documentary on legendary psychedelic poet Yona Wallach, exploring her radical life, experiments with drugs, poetry, and art through rare recordings, archival material, and visionary animation. German Premier. A cinematic journey into the world of Yona Wallach, an Israeli poet whose radical life and poetry ended with her death at an early age, leaving behind a myth, a trail of mystery and a throng of admirers. More than 25 years after her death, tapes from her last interview were discovered. In these tapes, Wallach confesses her attraction to madness, her experiments with drugs, her relationship with God, and the dangers she saw in writing. The film weaves her testimony with interviews and rare archival footage, her poems and evocative animation, together reviving Wallach’s thoughts, poetic images, and visions.
Directed, written and produced by Yair Qedar. Design & Animation: Jewboy. Editor: Yael Bedarshi. Music: Uri Kinrot. Theme song: Karolina. Sound design: Aviv Aldema. Online editor: Yoaz Raz. Photography: Oded Kirma, Itchik Portal, Oded Cohen, and Shark de Mayo. Supporters: the Israel Film Service, Channel 8, the Rabinowitz Foundation for the Arts. The official selection at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2012, winner of best film for 2012 and best soundtrack at the Israeli documentary film competition in 2012. ISRAEL 2012 56 minutes. Hebrew, English, Greek. Subtitles: Hebrew, English, Greek.
Event Venue
Kino Moviemento, Kottbusser Damm 22,Berlin, Germany
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