Avi Mograbi. Gonzo-dokumenty
Avi Mograbi: Gonzo-Documents

Summary/Abstract: Born in 1956, Avi Mograbi is considered to be one of the most important, but also most controversial Israeli filmmakers of his generation. He makes specific political films, consistently criticizing the condition of the Israeli society and the state’s policy, especially towards Palestine. Making films at the intersection of fiction and facts, he developed his own, distinct poetics; his films function mainly as documents, and he himself refers to this stylistic norm, but he does it on his own terms. Mograbi experiments with both narrative and stylistic solutions. Due to the specificity of his use of the documentary, the author of the article associated the director’s creative method with gonzo-journalism. The specific implementations of his strategy are analyzed on the example of selected films, shedding light on the nature of “reality” in documentaries and the way in which reality determines the creation of films and the filmmaker himself.

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