Director David Perlov

6 x 55’. 330 min. in total, 16 mm., b&w and color, Hebrew with English subtitles.

Shot over a ten-year period, DIARY is not only the political, professional and personal diary of a man, but a testimony that is also a statement on the turbulent reality of a war torn country, Israel.

The six chapters that make up the film takes us from Tel Aviv to Paris, then to London and Brazil, where David Perlov was born, and where he decides to return after a twenty year absence.

The film is also a family diary in which Perlov records the coming of age of his two daughters, Yael and Naomi. There are meetings with Claude Lanzman, Issac Stern, Joris Ivens, Andre Schwartz-Bart, Irving Howe, and Klaus Kinsky.

An extraordinary mixture of home movies, political documentary and cinema veritẻ, DIARY is a unique work. The ten years of shooting and five more of editing have resulted in a film which has the spontaneity and apparent arbitrariness of a snapshot but which is carefully composed and graded as a finished masterpiece.

“I present the people I film with a lot of love: you have to be very patient towards human beings when you shoot tem, because documentary characters are individuals and you deprive them of their privacy.”

The full conversation with Perlov (My Diary, published in “The Medium in 20^th Century Art)

Liberation, 21, Mars 2007