Eyal Sivan

Eyal Sivan, is a documentary filmmaker and essayist, currently co-leading the MA program in Film, video and new media at the school of Humanities and social sciences, at the University of East London (UEL). Born in Haifa Israel he grows up in Jerusalem and after exercising as a professional photographer in Tel-Aviv he leaves Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris and since then he is sharing is time between Europe and Israel. 
Sivan directed more then 10 worldwide awarded political documentaries and produced many others. His cinematographic body of work was shown and awarded various prizes in prestigious festivals. Beside worldwide theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Sivan’s works are regularly exhibit in major art shows around the world. Sivan publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes’ representation, political use of memory, as well as genocide and representation.
He’s the founder and artistic director of the Paris based documentary films production company Momento! and the film distribution agency Scalpel. Sivan is the founder and Chief Editor of ‘South Cinema Notebooks’ - a journal of cinema and political critic edited by the Sapir academic college in Israel where he lecturs and member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing house ‘La Fabrique’ as well as of the French social and political studies journal 'De l'autre Côté'.

Filmography

• 2009 Jaffa, the orange’s clockwork, Documentary, 88 minutes, color, Video
• 2008 Happy birthdays, towards a common archive, multi video channels installation, 23 minutes, color, Video
• 2007 Citizens K- the twin brothers, Documentary, 54 minutes, color, Video
• 2005 Faces of the Fallen  Documentary, 52 minutes, color, Video
• 2004  I Love You All  Documentary, 98 minutes, color, 35mm. (co-directed with Audrey Maurion)
• 2003  Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel, Documentary, 272 min, color, Video. (co-directed with Michel Khleifi)
• 2001 On the Top of the Descent  Fiction, 32 minutes color, Video
• 1999  The Specialist, portrait of a modern criminal Documentary, 128 minutes, b/w, 35mm
• 1997 Burundi, under Terror  Documentary, b/w, 13 minutes, 35mm. 
   Itsembatsemba, Rwanda one Genocide later  Documentary, b/w, 13 minutes, 35mm
• 1995 Aqabat-Jaber, Peace with no Return? Documentary, 61 minutes, color,  16mm
• 1994 Jerusalem(s), Borderline Syndrome Docu-drama, 64 minutes, color, 16mm
• 1993  Itgaber, he will Overcome   Documentary, 2 x 85 minutes, color, video
• 1991 Israland  Documentary, 58 minutes, color, video
• 1990  Izkor, Slaves of Memory ,  Documentary, 97 minutes, color, 16mm
• 1987 Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through Documentary, 81 minutes, color, 16mm