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Nina Behar


  • Documentary Director
  • Born: 25.05.1930 in Bucharest
  • Died: 25.03.1989 in Paris (France)
Graduate of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow (class of 1955). Documentary director for Sahia Film. In the 70s she first emigrated to Israel, then to France. Her PhD thesis “Film on art, art on art”, which she presented in French at the Sorbonne (1982), was translated in Romanian and published in 2009 by the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest. Her work in cinema is referenced in Enciclopedia filmului documentar, vol.3.
 

Trivia

  • The CineMAiubit festival, organized by UNATC, offers annually an award for student documentaries entitled the ”Nina Behar” Award.
Nina Behar about art documentary
"If the work of art is a thing one adds to the world, then the film about art, too, has the right to speak about the world, just like any other film has the right to speak about anything that goes into the composition of the world."

Others about Nina Behar
"Nina Behar has attempted to create in her films true mood exercises. By choosing the subjective point of view of a potential viewer or fine arts aficionado who finds himself in a gallery or in a museum a starting point, the director then gradually and subtly reaches the dramaturgy of the detail. The details turn into short stories. Some of them contain data and pertinent esthetic analyses. Others are made-up stories, i.e. true visions in respect to a painting or some other work of art." (Laurenţiu Damian - visit Cinetipar)

"In what concerns the films directed by Nina Behar it stands with certainty that her style was a result of staging everything she observed, knew, selected, carefully weighed and highlighted in the work of an artist – regardless of his field of expression -, which made her reach that impeccable dosage when everything concurs to the transfiguration of the ordinary into vectors of the hyper-esthetic." (Dorana Coşoveanu)