Nurith Aviv

Nurith Aviv is a French film director and director of photography who was born 11 March 1945, in Tel Aviv (then in Mandatory Palestine).

Biography Nurith Aviv has directed fourteen documentary films, and the topic of language is central to her personal and cinematographic exploration.

Aviv was the first woman to be recognized as Director of Photography by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC, the French National Center for Cinema and Animation), and has served as cinematographer for some one hundred feature and documentary films (for directors who include Agnès Varda, Amos Gitaï, René Allio and Jacques Doillon).

In 2019, Aviv was the recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française (nominated by Amin Maalouf)

In 2015, a retrospective of her oeuvre titled "Filiation, Language, Place" was held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, including 40 films for which she served as director or cinematographer.

was the winner of the 2009 Édouard Glissant Prize.

In 2008, a retrospective of her films took place at the Jeu de Paume.

Screenings of her latest films were held at Les 3 Luxembourgs Cinema, accompanied by numerous in-person and virtual discussions with writers, philosophers, psychoanalysts and literary critics.

Filmography

Year Original title 1989 Kfar Qar'a, Israel 1997 Makom, Avoda 2000 Circumcision 2001 Allenby, passage 2003 Vaters Land/Perte 2004 From Language to Language 2008 Sacred Language, Spoken Language 2011 Translating 2013 Announcements 2015 Poetics of the Brain 2017 Signing in Languages 2018 Signing 2020 Yiddish 2022 Words That Remain