Fragments * Jerusaleum
Shivrei Tmunot Yerushalaim

Israel, 1997
Cycle I (chapters 1, 2, 3): 164 mins.
Cycle 2 (chapters 4, 5, 6, 7): 194 mins.

Producers: Ron and Jacqueline Havilio
Writer/Director of Photography Ron Havilio
Editors: Tor Ben Mayor, Yael Perlov.

"At once home movie and city symphony, a family photo album and a national history, Ron Havilio's six-hour Fragments * Jerusalem is a monument in time that excavates a space. The streets, ancient or modern, are filled with memories and the memories of memories..." writes J. Hoberman in Film Comment, describing this epic personal and historical documentary. A collage of home movies, archival images, photographs, paintings, and newly photographed scenes, Fragments * Jerusalem examines and reinvents the language of cinema while moving back and forth between the filmmaker's family history and the history of Jerusalem. As Havilio writes about his one-of--a-kind masterpiece, "I have chosen the personal path in filmmaking-fixing images, faces, stories, fragments of life that would have otherwise been erased from memory ... the story of individuals caught in the whirlpool of history." - David Schwartz