Petting Zoo
2019
Director, Writer, Editor
11 minutes, Color
In 1974 the local TV news station came into the filmmaker’s home to document and learn about Jewish rituals. A narrative evolves, through the filmmaker’s young boy pov, about the formation of American Jewish identity, and transforms into an analogy for the current rise in anti-Semitism and nationalism in America and the world.
Screenings
Mimesis Documentary Film Festival
Riga International Short Film Festival 2Annas
Ethnograph Film Festival
Indie Grits Film Festival
Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Experimental Response Cinema “Over and Out” Program
Florida Film Festival
Cosmic Rays Film Festival
Atlanta Film Festival
Semi-Finalist Robinson International Short Film Competition
Spectral Cinema Film Festival
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Single Frame Experimental Documentary Film Festival
Moviate Underground Film Festival
UK Jewish Film Festival
Moscow Jewish Film Festival
Silhouette Film Festival (Paris: Invitation to screen Best of 2019 Festival Edition)
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Ji.hlava IDFF Short Joy Competition + DAfilms Featured Film Distribution (Czech Republic)
64th Cork Film Festival (Ireland)
Analogica 9 (Bolzano, Italy + International Tour)
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Silhouette Film Festival (Paris)
New Orleans Film Festival
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