Brief Encounters: Documentary Visits to an Imagined Israel

Explores how non-Israeli filmmakers have used the essayistic travelogue to capture Israel's complex and contested landscape.

Brief Encounters offers the first extended exploration of a distinct and often overlooked corpus of travel documentaries made by foreign filmmakers in Israel and British-Mandate Palestine over the past century. Focusing in particular on the tumultuous period of the 1960s to 1970s, Ohad Landesman shows how renowned filmmakers such as Chris Marker, Pier Paolo Pasolini, J...