Nurith Aviv


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

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, and has served as cinematographer for some one hundred feature and documentary films.
In 2019, Aviv was the recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française
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

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