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Tzipora And Rachel Are Not Dead

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

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

 
Tzipora And Rachel Are Not Dead

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

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