Museum-Cinema: Cinematic Fridays at the Museum / Ada: My Mother the Architect, 2024

Following the success of the series last year, Tel Aviv Museum of Art is once again presenting Cultural Fridays!

Almost every Friday, the finest films about art and culture will be screened, preceded by a short lecture by one of the Museum’s curators. This collaboration between the Museum, the EPOS International Festival of Art and Culture Films, the Third Ear, and the Docaviv Festival allows film aficionados to enjoy captivating and thought-provoking films from around the world, as well as a visit to exhibitions of master artists from Israel and abroad.

* Admission to the film includes a visit to the exhibitions at the Museum, subject to its opening hours

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Ada: My Mother the Architect, 2024 | Dir. Yael Melamede, Israel, 82 minutes, Hebrew and English; Hebrew and English subtitles
Introduction: Yael Melamede, film director

Ada Karmi-Melamede is one of the most prolific architects of her generation, in Israel and around the world. Through the lens of her daughter’s film-camera lens, the life story of this extraordinary protagonist is revealed, intertwined with that of the turbulent and complicated country she loves. Karmi-Melamede offers an unusually evocative perspective of notions such as “place,” “home,” and “country,” as someone working toward improving a public sphere that is becoming increasingly fraught. While so many are shaken by the fragility of Israel’s democracy, Karmi-Melamede offers us ways of thinking about what we seek in our personal and public lives, and the spaces and places in between.

About the lecturer:
Yael Malamede is an Israeli filmmaker who divides her time between Tel Aviv and New York, where she established her award-winning production company, SALTY Features. Her documentary film, Inocente, won her the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2013. Her film My Architect earned her another Academy Award nomination, this time in the Best Feature Documentary category. She is the daughter of architect Ada Karmi-Melamede, and before turning to filmmaking, also worked in the field of architecture. Her film Ada, My Architect Mother won the Cinematography Award at the 2024 Jerusalem Film Festival.

Screening courtesy of YES Docu.