From Language to Language (Hebrew: משפה לשפה, tr. MiSafa LeSafa) is a 55-minute 2004 Belgian-French-German-Israeli Hebrew-language independent underground experimental documentary art film directed by Nurith Aviv. and
Synopsis The film, produced by and the Dardenne brothers, was released on DVD by as part of a boxset also including 2008's Langue sacrée, langue parlée and 2011's Traduire, with which they form a trilogy. It contains interviews with Israeli artists and writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Evgenia Dodina, Salman Masalha, Agi Mishol, Amal Murkus, Prof. Dr. Haviva Pedaya, Haïm Ulliel, and Meir Wieseltier who write in Hebrew even though it is not their native language about the importance of language and asks how the struggle between their mother tongue and Hebrew has affected their art.. . Raizen, Prof. Dr. Esther. From Language to Language. In: Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Tucson, Arizona: Middle East Studies Association of North America, Volume 40, Number 1, June 2006, pp. 127–129. Retrieved 24 March 2018.. שפת האם, שפת האב, השפה הטפילית והשפה הארוטית: על סרטה של נורית אביב משפה לשפה [Mother Tongue, Father’s Language, Parasitic Language, and Erotic Language: On Nurith Aviv’s Film From Language to Language]. In: Reprinted in: Caland, Dr. Brigitte. Speaking in Tongues: Film Examines Languages in Israel. In: Al Jadid: A Review of Arab Arts and Culture, Los Angeles, California: Nagam Cultural Project, Volume 11, Issues 50/51, Winter/Spring 2005, pp. 19–20. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
Reception Between its release and 2006, the film was screened and won several awards at DocAviv, Marseille Festival of Documentary Film, Visions du Réel, Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, , , , Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle, Israel Psychoanalytic Society, Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Martin-Gropius-Bau, University of Lausanne, and many other places.. . Hebrew original: The film was produced by ZDF, Arte, Noga Communications, , and . It was also screened at Centre Georges Pompidou in 2015.
References
External links From Language to Language at Nurith Aviv’s Official Website
From Language to Language Film Trailer at Éditions Montparnasse’s Website