1341 FRAMES OF LOVE & WAR

By Ran TAL

RESERVOIR DOCS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2022

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.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2022
Berlinale Special
Krakow IFF 2022
Berlin Jewish Film Festival 2022
Docaviv 2022
Best Director Award, Editing Award, Kadar Foundation Award
Sheffield DocFest 2022
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Historical, Art - Culture
    • Countries
    • ISRAEL
    • Languages
    • HEBREW
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ran TAL
    • Producer(s)
    • Ran TAL, Sarig PEKER
    • Synopsis
    • Composed entirely of images taken by the acclaimed photo-journalist Micha Bar-Am over the course of more than fifty years, 1341 FRAMES OF LOVE AND WAR reveals the enormous price that comes along with documenting atrocities and wars. "The most horrifying images are sometimes aesthetic" says Bar-Am, who gave filmmaker Ran Tal exclusive access to his vast archive.

      Born in Berlin in 1930, Bar-Am found his vocation as a new immigrant in Israel in the early 1950s. His photographs depict images of the struggles of a new nation and its ongoing wars and conflicts, as well as personal images of his family in the most private of moments. The events and wars he doggedly pursued turned into iconic images through his Leica camera. 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 graced countless covers of the world's major magazines - The New York Times, Time Magazine, Stern, Paris Match and more...

      Today, at the age of 91, Bar-Am looks at his photographs anew, wondering aloud why he photographed, what photography means, and what happened to the Israeli project. 1341 FRAMES provides an intimate portrait of an artist and a meditation on memory, violence and identity. It is a complex love letter to the power, beauty and horror of photographic imagery.