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Nurith Aviv
Born (1945-03-11) 11 March 1945 (age 79)
Nationality French, Israeli
Occupation Cinematographer, film director, writer

Nurith Aviv is a French film director and director of photography who was born 11 March 1945, in Tel Aviv (then in Mandatory Palestine).

Biography

Nurith Aviv has directed fourteen documentary films, and the topic of language is central to her personal and cinematographic exploration.

Aviv was the first woman to be recognized as Director of Photography by the CNC, the French National Center for Cinema and Animation, and has served as cinematographer for some one hundred feature and documentary films (for directors who include Agnès Varda, Amos Gitaï, René Allio and Jacques Doillon).

In 2019, Aviv was the recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française (nominated by Amin Maalouf)

In 2015, a retrospective of her oeuvre titled "Filiation, Language, Place" was held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, including 40 films for which she served as director or cinematographer.

was the winner of the 2009 Édouard Glissant Prize.

In 2008, a retrospective of her films took place at the Jeu de Paume.

Screenings of her latest films were held at Les 3 Luxembourgs Cinema, accompanied by numerous in-person and virtual discussions with writers, philosophers, psychoanalysts and literary critics.

Filmography

Year Original title Director Notes
1989 Kfar Qar'a, Israel Yes
1997 Makom, Avoda Yes
2000 ... Yes
2001 Allenby, passage Yes
2003 Vaters Land/Perte Yes
2004 From Language to Language Yes
2008 Sacred Language, Spoken Language Yes
2011 Translating Yes
2013 Announcements Yes
2015 Poetics of the Brain Yes
2017 Signing in Languages Yes
2018 Signing Yes
2020 Yiddish Yes
2022 Words That Remain Yes
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