When:
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
Where: McCormick Foundation Center, Forum auditorium, 1870 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Nancy Gelman
(847) 491-2612
Group: The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Category: Fine Arts
Yona Wallach. Deconstructed through Film.
Yona Wallach was one of Israeli's greatest poets whose turbulent life is depicted through two films in a world of free love and drugs accompanied by a rapid descent into mental breakdown.
Film Screening and Discussion
4:00 Introductions: Northwestern Professor Phyllis Lassner, the WCAS Writing Program, Gender Studies, and Jewish Studies, and Cindy Stern, Director of Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema.
4:20 p.m. Screening Yona, directed by Nir Bergman
5:45 p.m. Clips from The Accursed by Hagai Levi (In Treatment, The Affair) a documentary of Yona Wallach recorded over a 10-year period.