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Spirals

Synopsis: 

Four beguiling Russian immigrants, only daughters, met at a theater workshop and became an alternative family.
Two years on, through a spiral narrative of filmed memory from their theater period, they untie the bond of their loaded past, and choose themselves in the present. Diana Golbi auditions for "Israeli Idol". Marta, an uneducated street urchin, auditions for a prestigious acting school. Anna enlists in a combat unit and deals with her eating disorder, and The Redhead? She realizes she's a flower...

Runtime: 
01:20:42
Information for the Audience: 

Directors: Yael Gur

Writers: Yael Gur

Producers: Itay Ken-Tur

Key cast: Marta Babachanov, Diana Guli, Diana Golbi, Anna Piasetski

 

Director: Yael Gur

Yael Gur is a director and editor of documentaries and films for social organizations and NGOs. Gur graduated with Excellence from her studies at the Department of Film and Television at Tel AvivUniversity.Gur's work focuses on facilitating youth groups with the tools to make movies. Among the organizations and entities for which Gur has been producing and directing films are the "Kids Creating Peace", "The Studio for the Performing Arts" in Holon, “Culture and Sports Development Company” in Bat - Yam, and the “Youth Advancement Department” in Lod. "Spirals" is her first full feature documentary.

Director’s Statement

Spirals is a document which offers an alternative to the linear perception of processes. 
As such, Spirals attempts to shift the weight from the external to the internal, call upon the infinite in our approach to ourselves and mark this approach as the highest goal. 
Spirals treats adolescence as a "generator event" since it is the time of the initial discovery of the Self. This discovery reveals the inner conflicts that we'll deal with for the rest of our lives, from a different angle and at a different intensity each time. And, in apposition to the inner struggle, the ability to observe ourselves is that which gives us a unique viewpoint. 
And observation is Art. 
In this sense, Spirals cries out "Art or Die!" when it tells the coming-of-age story of four unusually gifted girls who had the luck to find an artistic environment which enabled them to observe themselves from a beneficial, enabling place.

Usually, as passive viewers, we are exposed to quite a few audio-visual reflections that have nothing to do with us but soon become our aspirations (images that the media dictates subject to fashion and norms). 
Spirals proposes the opposite process: Through theatrical and cinematic means, the heroines turn their gaze from the outside to the inside and reflect themselves through themselves. These reflections develop over four years of documentation and create a spiral line which becomes increasingly refined, and its success is in the closing of inner gaps rather than reaching external goals.

Spirals follows four girls who join forces in their quest for their inner voice. A quest that, unfortunately, is not typical of teenage girls who are usually more worried about pleasing others than listening to their inner voice and acting accordingly. This kind of quest is especially rare among girls from single-parent immigrant families living under the poverty line.

 

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Screenings / Awards: 
  • Jerusalem International Film Festival

    Jerusalem, Israel
    July 15, 2015
    National premier

Information for theatres: 

student project: No
completion date: 2014-05-01
shooting format: DV
aspect ratio: 16:9
film color: Color
first-time filmmaker: No

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