Tzipora And Rachel Are Not Dead
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Tzipora And Rachel Are Not Dead
After 30 years of failed efforts, Tahel (Rachel at birth) finally persuades her sister Tzipora to leave Abarbanel Psychiatric Hospital and move in with her. Together, the two sisters challenge and dismantle language – both verbal and cinematic – until once again it becomes a tool they can use to speak the silence, the oblivion, the dissociation: the black abyss of trauma, what it is they cannot remember and therefore, unable to forget. It is an encounter that takes its participants, if they are willing to join this harrowing journey, back to the starting point; to uncharted, and therefore, terrifying territories of the psyche.
A 16-year documentation of a struggle with the existence of a raw traumatic excess, which cannot be spoken or mediated verbally.
Festivals and Awards:
Docaviv Film Festival 2023, Tel Aviv, Israel
Director: Hadar Morag, Tahel Ran
Producer: Hadar Morag
Cinematographer: Hadar Morag, Tahel Ran
Editor: Hadar Morag
Soundtrack Editor: Keren Or Biton
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Mifal HaPayis
Subtitles: English, Hebrew
Film Name in Hebrew: ציפורה ורחל לא מתות
Category: Experimental Cinema / Family / Health / Identity / People with Disabilities / Women
Tag Words: Abarbanel Dissociation memory Mental Health Psyche Psychiatric Hospital sexual abuse Tahel Ran trauma
After 30 years of failed efforts, Tahel (Rachel at birth) finally persuades her sister Tzipora to leave Abarbanel Psychiatric Hospital and move in with her. Together, the two sisters challenge and dismantle language – both verbal and cinematic – until once again it becomes a tool they can use to speak the silence, the oblivion, the dissociation: the black abyss of trauma, what it is they cannot remember and therefore, unable to forget. It is an encounter that takes its participants, if they are willing to join this harrowing journey, back to the starting point; to uncharted, and therefore, terrifying territories of the psyche.
A 16-year documentation of a struggle with the existence of a raw traumatic excess, which cannot be spoken or mediated verbally.
Festivals and Awards:
Docaviv Film Festival 2023, Tel Aviv, Israel
Director: Hadar Morag, Tahel Ran
Producer: Hadar Morag
Cinematographer: Hadar Morag, Tahel Ran
Editor: Hadar Morag
Soundtrack Editor: Keren Or Biton
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Mifal HaPayis
Subtitles: English, Hebrew
Film Name in Hebrew: ציפורה ורחל לא מתות
Category: Experimental Cinema / Family / Health / Identity / People with Disabilities / Women
Tag Words: Abarbanel Dissociation memory Mental Health Psyche Psychiatric Hospital sexual abuse Tahel Ran trauma