Join us for Pride month on Tuesday 16th June from 7pm for a screening of Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky’s ‘Treyf’ (1998, 16mm, 56 min) at Hackney Showroom in East London.
There will be an extended Q&A with Alisa Lebow, director/writer/filmmaker and Professor of Screen Media at University of Sussex, to discuss the film and what has changed in Jewish left politics in the quarter century since it was made.
The event will be fundraising through Tote Freedom with all proceeds going directly to Gazan families.
BYOB (Bring Your Own Booze/Drink) and any snacks.
Light snacks (kosher and unkosher!) will be provided.
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TREYF (1998) — Made 25 years before Israelism, production began on this film the same year Jewish Voice for Peace was founded, when there was as yet no audible oppositional Jewish voice in America against the hegemonic Zionist consensus.
Treyf — “unkosher” in Yiddish — is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover Seder. With personal narration, real and imagined educational strips, and haunting imagery, filmmakers Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky examine the Jewish identity of their upbringings and the ways Zionism was seamlessly enfolded into it. Incisive cultural critics, astute, poignant, and poetic — never cynical — they weave their way from New York to Jerusalem and back, in search of a progressive, secular Jewish identity that draws from their childhood reminiscences as much as from their contemporary queer lives.
A reflection on culture, community, and individual desire, this witty film follows the filmmakers as they discover what they thought was most profoundly “treyf” about their worldviews still has roots in Jewish history.
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Doors open at 7pm
Screenings starts 7:30pm
Q&A at 8:45pm (with Italian translation)
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A collaboration by Jewish Artists for Palestine, Doikayt Collective and Tikkun Decoloniale.