Career
Eyal Sivan is a photographer and theoretician born in 1964 in Haifa, Israel. Raised in Jerusalem; and based in Paris. As a teenager, Sivan abandoned formal education to dedicate himself to his hobbies, which were photography and political activism.
After working as a professional commercial photographer in Tel-Aviv, he left Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris.
He now splits his time between Europe and Israel. Known for his controversial films, Sivan has produced and directed more than a dozen political documentaries.
Sivan"s films are regularly exhibited in art exhibitions including Documenta, Manifesta and International Center of Photography New New York His work touches on such themes as the representation of political crime.
The political use of memory.
The ethics of documentary filmmaking. And the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. and of the film distribution agency Scalpel. He created South Cinema Notebooks, a journal of cinema criticism published by the Sapir Academic College in Ashkelon.
Academic Postings Associate Professor, Media Production, University of East London, School of Arts and Digital Industries, United Kingdom Honorary Fellow, European Centre for Palestinian Studies, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Visiting Professor, Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Visiting Professor, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy Visiting Professor, Sapir Academic College, School of Sound and Visual Arts, Ashkelon, Israel Filmography Other visual works 2012 Towards a common archive, testimonies of Zionist veterans of 1948.
Multi screens video show. 2012 Montage Interdit.
Berlin Documentary Forum 2 New practices across disciplines. Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2010 Documentary moments 1: Renaissance.
Berlin Documentary Forum 1 New practices across disciplines.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2009 Fragmented memory of spectatorship. Top 10 documentary programme IDFA Amsterdam 2008 Happy birthdays, towards a common archive - fragment 1. Multi screens video Installation 2001 Scalpel / Skalpel.
(concept & artistic director) television magazine for ARTE 1994 Jerusalem, Jerusalems.
Conception and direction of a Theme evening for ARTE 1988 Progressive list for Peace.