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Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuseassault and employment discrimination against women, with over 175 movie clips from 1896

Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East L A, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp

A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit Surrounded by dark sounds of the Other Side, she moves into remote and increasingly desolate regions of Arab lands Her

A man is discovered digging a grave for his wife in the middle of the desert, and is arrested for her murder

Revolves around the life of an alienated blackjack dealer

Loosely inspired by Dostoevskys CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, DISSOLUTION combines an almost surreal fairy tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence which permeates contemporary Israeli societ