Join us for a screening of Sacred Tongue, Profane Language (2008), with Nurith Aviv in conversation with Ofer Dynes, Aviya Kushner, Jacques Lezra, and Moulie Vidas Co-sponsored by Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies, Centro Primo Levi, and Fordham’s Center on Religion and Culture Hebrew was the language of Scripture, liturgy, and rabbinic commentaries for centuries.
Nurith Aviv (Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine, 1945) has directed eighteen documentary films. Her works investigate language and move lyrically through the landscapes, collective myths, and intimate narratives that shape humans’ ways of being together. The first woman to be a director of photography in France, she has shot 100 fiction and documentary films with directors
A screening of Translating (2011), with Nurith Aviv in conversation with Aviya Kushner, Jacques Lezra, and James Redfield Co-sponsored by Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies, Centro Primo Levi, and Fordham’s Center on Religion and Culture In this Babelic film, translators from different corners of the world speak in their own tongues, recounting their encounters with
Join us for a screening of The Year of the Discovery by Luis López Carrasco. Spain, 1992. The Barcelona Olympic Games and the Seville Universal Expo, together with the celebration of the fifth centenary of the discovery of America that same year, presented Spain to the international community as a modern, developed, and dynamic country.
