And the Alley She Whitewashed in Light Blue.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Bloomsbury Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file)

Distribution:

London: Bloomsbury Video. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2022.

Other Title:

Bloomsbury Video Library.

Place of Publication:

Nili Portugali. 2013.

Biography/History:

Written and directed by: Nili Portugali; Cinematography: Boaz Yehonatan Yaakov and Ofer Inov; Editing: Nili Portugali; Online Editor: Yoav Raz; Sound Design & Mix: Itzik Cohen; Music Selection & Editing: Nili Portugali; Production Designer: Nili Portugali; Artistic Advisor: Sigal Weiss; Produced by: Nili Portugali Nili Portugali is a well-known practicing Architect; senior lecturer; researcher and published author. Her multidisciplinary work both in practice and theory is closely connected to the holisticphenomenological school of thought. She is 7th generation descendant of a family Living in the holly 'Kabbala' city of Tsefat, Israel since the early 19th century. She was a senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion, Haifa. She is a Guest lecturer at MIT, Harvard, Carleton University, Oxford University, TU Stuttgart; TU Dresden; TU Delft, TsingHua University China. Her first book: The Act of Creation and The Spirit of A Place/ A Holistic-Phenomenological Approach to Architecture/ Edition Axel Menges Stuttgart/London was Listed in the books of the year by the Royal Institute of British Architects (R.I.B.A). Graduated at the A.A. School of Architecture - London; Post G selected studies in Architecture & Buddhism at U.C Berkeley; Film studies at the Tel-Aviv University. She did research work in the 'Center for Environmental Structure' Berkeley, with Prof. Chris alexander. Among the world-known buildings she designed is: 'The Felicja Blumenthal Music Center and Library' at the historic heart of Tel-Aviv. The film she directed; edited and did the production design can be seen as the third of a TRILOGY following the buildings she designed as an architect. .

Summary:

At a time of existential threat to the physical and human environment we live in, Architect Nili Portugali takes us into a deeply intimate journey in the Galilean 'Kabbala' holy city of Tsefat, the birth place and hometown of her family since early 19th century, where her grandmother Rivka founded her hotel, in a small stone building around a patio at the end of an alley in the old city. Reconstructing in her unique meditative cinematic language her childhood memories engraved on each stone of the city's history. An invisible city with cultural heritage of more than 1000 years that no longer exists and is totally forgotten. A childhood journey that unfolds gradually in to a discovery of profound universal insights of: What is their secret of all those great timeless buildings, cities, villages, tents and temples of the past endowed with beauty and soul in which man feels 'at home'! , and what is that One pure 'art of making' which is thousands of years old that creates them at any culture, at any place and at any time. A discovery from her present holistic / phenomenological / Buddhist / scientific point of view, replacing current thoughts and approaches. "Using my body of knowledge and experience I have been accumulating for more than 40 years of multidisciplinary creative work (both in practice and academic) in the Visual arts; Writing and Architecture as my main profession, the film both in form and content, explore and cross new boundaries, and straddle the line between art and cinema". .

Credits:

Director, Nili Portugali ; screenwriter, Nili Portugali.

Notes:

Mumbai International film festival, India (World premiere) EPOS- The International Art Film Festival, Israel Maine International film festival, US Lund International Architecture Film Festival, Sweden 100 ARCH7ITECTS OF THE YEAR Exhibition, Korea Istanbul Experimental Film Festival Blow-Up International Arthouse film festival, Chicago O PLATEAU Festival International de Cinema da Praia New Delhi Film Festival, India Inca Imperial International Film Festival, Lima (Peru) - AWARD Gerona International Film Festival Polish International Film Festival ,Warsaw - AWARD

ISBN:

9781350901193

OCLC:

1356504657

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.