1341 Frames of Love & War
By Ran Tal • 2022 • Documentary • 90
From over half a million negatives taken by Israel‘s celebrated war photographer Micha Bar-Am, 1341 FRAMES is an epic journey of questioning history through the camera.
A story that begins in Berlin in 1930, moves to Palestine in 1936, becomes a love affair with Zionism in the 1950’s and turns into a journey of self-doubt and questioning.
Berlinale 2022 – Berlinale Special
Krakow IFF 2022
DocAviv 2022 – Best Director Award, Best Editing, Kadar Foundation Award
Berlin Jewish Film Festival 2022
Sheffield DocFest 2022
« The events and wars he doggedly pursued with his Leica camera have become internationally known, iconic images. He became a member of the celebrated Magnum collective, co-founded the International Center of Photography in New York with Cornell Capa, and his photographs have graced countless covers of the world’s major magazines.
» - Variety
« Israeli war-photographer Micha Bar-Am looks back on his nine eventful decades in Ran Tal’s persuasively admiring documentary.
» - Screen Daily
« Magnum photographer Micha Bar-Am’s life and work is powerfully, sometimes painfully recounted through still images and offscreen voiceover in Ran Tal’s multilayered documentary that questions the psychological effects of shooting atrocities.
» - The Film Verdict
« As there are no more photos to be shown, the film ends shortly after on this sour symbolic note: what has become of Israel made it impossible for one of its most important observers to go on watching, thus turning the rest of us blind.
» - International Cinephile Society
« A tour-de-force through the endemic violence that has gripped Israel and its neighbours for so long.
» - Modern Times
Director: Ran Tal
Country: Israël
Production year: 2022
Language: Hebrew
Runtime: 90
