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Biography |
| Erez T Yanuv Barzilay has directed and produced hundreds of television reports, feature presentations and half a dozen independent feature documentaries for national and international television |
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Awards |
2006 Tuskegee Film Festival, Alabama - Best International Documentary
2005 Fort Lauderdale Int’ Film Festival, Florida - Humanitarian Award
2005 Boston Int’ Film Festival - Indie Spec Special Recognition Award
2005 Moondance Int’ Film Festival, Boulder - Columbine Award |
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Filmography |
2004 A Cry for Madiom - ongoing Genocide in the Sudan
2002 Four Days in May
1997 tears in the green
1995 Jordan 1/95
1992 Earthquake in the Himalayas
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Contact |
Erez T Yanuv Barzilay
1737 Banbury Rd
N Vancourver
BC Canada V7G 1W3
Fax: +1 6047327711
E-mail:barzerez@yahoo.com
www.shailahproductions.com |
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Composers |
| Edit, Producer: | Erez T Yanuv Barzilay | | Co-Producer: | Dror Marcus | | Music: | Ben Euerby |
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Summary |
Two former Israeli friends, one lives in Canada, the other in Cambodia, on a farewell visit to the Israeli occupied Gaza Strip.
The result, a panoramic drive through 20 Israeli settlements dotting the Gaza Strip, one month prior to their inevitable destruction.
Combined with hundreds of close up digital images (taken by Dror Marcus), the wide screen panoramic digital video footage (taken by Erez Yanuv Barzilay) reveals an absolutely surreal experience: partially abandoned villages, flourishing agriculture projects and a unique mixture of inhabitants.
Most people they encounter are trying to deny their imminent fate.
They are surrounded by concrete barricades and electronic fences, with massive armed forces buffering the diminishing Israeli presence from the independence seeking Palestinians.In a land filled with chaos and contradictions, Surreal takes a lyrical journey into the madness through the lenses of the two former Israelis.
Surreal plays with the balance between Dror’s still photography and Erez’s moving images. Both immersed in a haunting and dramatic original score (composed by Ben Euerby).
Surreal uniquely engages with the different mediums to build tension and play between past, present and future.
A surreal glance at a land that no longer exists.
Erez T Yanuv Barzilay about his film:
“Surreal” is a personal journey turned into a testimony to absurdity.
The same absurdity that can now be conceived as a unique beacon of hope for peaceful conflict resolution.
It is still a mystery to me that after all we thought we knew about it, the reality was so surprising.
It raised big questions in my mind: about peace, hope, reality, the role of the media, the future of Israel, the future for the Palestinians.
I just wish that the people who will share the experience with Dror and myself, will also revile something new for themselves, learning as much as I did in the process of making “Surreal”.
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