Abraham Ravett

Abraham Ravett

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Abraham Ravett was born in Poland in 1947, raised in Israel, and emigrated to the United States in 1955. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking and Photography and has been an independent filmmaker for the past forty years.

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Holding Hands with Ilse 2017

The filmmaker's search for the German teenage girl that took care of him between 1948-1950 in Walbrzych, Poland where he was born.
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In Memory 1993

In this non-narrative, meditative, and poignant film, footage of life from the Lodz Ghetto is juxtaposed with the chanting of "Kel Maleh Rachamim," a plea to God to let the souls of those "slaughtered and burned" find peace.
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Horse/Kappa/House 1995

Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan is the setting for "The Legends of Tono," a unique collection of regional folktales, gathered in the early 20th century by Yanagita Kunio. The tales manifest and explain invisible forces and malevolent events which shape the psycho-cultural dimensions of Japanese indigenous beliefs and folk faith. Inspired by "The Legends of Tono," HORSE/KAPPA/HOUSE records the surrounding landscape in a number of small villages throughout Iwate Prefecture in order to create a cinematic space which echoes, by implication and association, the external and unseen world in the environment.