Ari Libsker
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Ari Libsker (Hebrew: ארי ליבסקר), born in the Haifa, is a young Israeli filmmaker and journalist.
He has made several documentaries. "Circumcision" (Israel 2004, 30 min, channel 2) dealt with the affection of circumcision on the sex life. Channel 2 tried to censor the movie and in the end broadcasted it at a late hour. The movie got a lot of responses and critics. A year later Libsker made "The Home Poem" (Israel 2006, 60 min.) a movie that followed three people, one of them his grandmother and their relation to home. (The name "Home Poem" is in respect to the same titled book by poet Aharon Shabtai).
Libsker is also a film tutor and a business journalist for Firma magazine (Globes), the Israeli financial paper.
In the late 1990s he founded, with others the "Free Academy" group. Since 2004 he co-edites Maayan Magazine, a magazine of poetry and ideas, and Maarvon - Israel's only film magazine.
In May 2006 Libsker presented a video work called "Magic 1" at the exhibition Doron that refers to Doron Sabag, exhibited in the Minshar gallery of Tel Aviv. It dealt with art and workers rights.
On 2007 Libsker is working on a new feature documentary film called "Stalags". During the early 60's in Israel and the Adolf Eichmann trial "Stalags" were pornographic booklet describing masochistic brutal sex relationship between Nazi women warders and concentration camp prisoners. The film analyzes the reasons behind the phenomenon.
[edit] External links
- "Fiction Memory" On Ari Libsker's new film "Stalags" from Haaretz, 24.1.2007.
- report on "Stalags" from Haaretz (Hebrew).
- A few of Libsker's videos from Google video
- The Doron exhibition website (Hebrew-English)
- "Eat And Drink Before Your Dead-Line" An article by Ari Libsker (Hebrew).
