A special event to be held at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design with the participation of the Polish Institute Tel Aviv will discuss the issue of art during wartime

and will take place on May 11 2022 – this is a day-long event.

The first part – 13:00 – 14:00 will be a physical event during which students films on the topic of immigration, identity, and both Russian and Ukrainian Cultures will be shown.

The films were created during a documentary film making course for second year students between 2021-2022.

Bezalel, Mount Scopus, Hall of films and screen-based arts level 3

The second part of the day will take place between 20:00 – 21:30 and will be an online discussion on national identities in Eastern Europe, the animation studio of the USSR, political censorship

and the fight for artistic freedom. That part will include academics, creators, reporters and more.

The image is from Peter Levin’s film First Generation Bezalel Dept of Screen Based Arts 2022