Elle Flanders

Elle Flanders

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Zero Degrees of Separation 2005 (5.3)

This feature documentary breaks with the sensationalistic media coverage of the Middle East by documenting the everyday lives of same-sex Palestinian-Israeli couples. Faced with the modern injustices of work visas, checkpoints, harassment and prejudices, these brave individuals resist oppression and take small steps each day to build a sense of peace, mutual respect and hope. Filmmaker Elle Flanders draws on her own story of growing up with Zionist grandparents who were intimately involved in the founding of the state of Israel. Their haunting archival home movies evoke an idealized Israel of the 1950s and summon larger questions about humanity, conflict and nationalist aspiration.
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Morte dell'arcivescovo 2015

Morte dell’arcivescovo is an experimental recreation of the opening scene from Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo’s unmade film about the assassination of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero. Using appropriated footage, archival images, and CGI reconstructions to strictly replicate the script’s scenographic and musical directions.
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Surviving Memory 1996

"Surviving Memory" is a film about the role of loss in the formation of identity. It is a narrative intercut with documentary fragments of political actions, which connect the various characters to event through collective memory. Through autobiographical spoken texts, the narrator relays fragments of a relationship between two Jewish women.