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Gitai (Amos) film archive
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Series 1. Promised Land 2002-2004

box 1, folder 1

Synopsis of the film with original title of Fake, in English, French, and Hebrew

box 1, folder 2

Screenplay in English, French and in Hebrew

box 1, folder 3

Venezia 61 competition: invitation to participate and promotional catalog 2004

box 1, folder 3

Promotional materials (poster, dvd cover)

map-folder 10

Promotional poster Architektur museum 2009

 

Series 2. Free Zone 2004-2005

box 1, folder 4

Screenplay in French by Amos Gitai and Marie-Jose Sanselme 2005-01-11

box 1, folder 5

Festival de Cannes 2005, Free Zone promotional catalog

box 1, folder 6

Press coverage and promotion, including in Cahiers du Cinema

map-folder 10

A retrospective in Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino, Italy 2006-09

 

Series 3. Disengagement 2005-2007

box 1, folder 7

Screenplay in English by Amos Gitai and Marie-Jose Sanselme 2005-11-24

box 1, folder 8

Screenplay in English, first draft "Gaza" by Amos Gitai and Marie-Jose Sanselme 2006-08-28

box 1, folder 9

Screenplay in French by Amos Gitai and Marie-Jose Sanselme 2006-08-01

box 2, folder 1

Screenplay in French by Amos Gitai and Marie-Jose Sanselme 2007-02-01

box 2, folder 2

Screenplay in Hebrew

box 2, folder 3

Research files of filmed conversation in Hebrew

box 2, folder 4

Screenplay in Hebrew

box 2, folder 5

Screenplay in Hebrew and English, shooting in Israel

box 2, folder 6

Shooting script in Hebrew

box 2, folder 7

Toronto International Film Festival catalog 2007-09-06-2007-09-15

half-box 3

64. Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica catalog

half-box 3

31a Mostra Internacional de Cinema catalog 2007-10-19-2007-11-01

half-box 4

Osian's Cine: Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema catalog 2008-07-10-2008-07-20

half-box 4

11th Yerevan International Film Festival catalog 2014-07-13-2014-07-20

box 5, folder 1

Promotional materials

box 5, folder 1

Photocopy of photograph of Amos Gitai with Juliette Binoch

box 5, folder 2

French press coverage

box 5, folder 2

Article in Hebrew; poster in Hebrew

flat-box 6, folder 1

Poster in french advertising the film

flat-box 6, folder 1

French and Italian press coverage

box 5, folder 3

Venezia 64 film festival promotional package

box 5, folder 3

Articles about the film and promotional materials from various film festivals

flat-box 6, folder 2

Toronto International Film Festival press coverage

flat-box 6, folder 2

Sao Paulo Film Festival press coverage

 

Series 4. One Day You'll Understand (Plus Tard, Tu Comprendras)

Processing Information

The digital portion of the Amos Gitai film archive was received on 17 external hard drives and disk images of the hard drives were created using Forensic Toolkit and were scanned for PII using Identity Finder. The hard drives were given names by the Gitai crew and where given unique identifiers by the archivists for internal tracking. Files related to the film One Day You'll Understand (Plus tard, tu comprendras) were stored on hard drives VICTOR (Stanford identifier: CM001) and RIVKA (Stanford identifier: CM002). A separate set of files were captured by imaging selected files from Marie-José Sanselme's computer and that images is called 20170920_MarieJose. The files related to One Day You'll Understand (Plus tard, tu comprendras) represent 972.87 GB of data, of which 5.53 GB is currently available for use. These files include digital video, Final Cut Pro projects, still images, text documents, and metadata files related to the film editing process. Currently, only the still images and text documents are processed and accessible. Still images were normalized to .jpgs for access and .tiffs for preservation using Photo Mechanic. Text documents were normalized to .pdfs for access and preservation using Adobe Acrobat Pro. Video files from the filming of One Day You'll Understand (Plus tard, tu comprendras) are available in the Special Collections reading room.
box 5, folder 4

Synopsis in French 2006-06-03

box 5, folder 4

Screenplay in French by Dan Franck and Jerome Clement 2007-02-13

box 5, folder 5

Screenplay in French 2006-08-05

box 5, folder 6

Screenplay in French by Dan Dranck and Jerome Clement 2007-07-16

box 5, folder 7

Photographs of Amos Gitai and Jerome Clement

box 5, folder 7

Promotional postcard of film screening at Centre Pompidou

box 5, folder 8

Toronto International Film Festival catalog 2008-09-04-2008-09-13

box 5, folder 9

Revue de presse, spiral bound book

box 7, folder 1

Fata Morgana, quadrimestrale di cinema e visioni 2010-04

box 7, folder 2

Information relating to Klaus Barbie

box 7, folder 3

Notes, conversations and background information relating to the screenplay

box 7, folder 4

Press coverage in French

box 7, folder 5

Press coverage in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese

box 7, folder 5

Press coverage in English and German

flat-box 6, folder 3

Press and promotional material

box 7, folder 6

Periodicals with articles about the film: Filmcritica, Tribune Juive, Telerama

 

Photocopies of photographs

box 7, folder 7

Photocopies of photographs, including Amos Gitai with Jeanne Moreau

 

Series 4A. One Day You'll Understand (Plus tard, tu comprendras) born digital materials

Processing Information

Digital files related to the film One Day You'll Understand (Plus tard, tu comprendras) were stored on hard drives VICTOR (Stanford identifier: CM001) and RIVKA (Stanford identifier: CM002). A separate set of files were captured by imaging selected files from Marie-José Sanselme's computer. That disk image is called 20170920_MarieJose.
The files related to One Day You'll Understand (Plus tard, tu comprendras) represent 972.87 GB of data, of which 5.53 GB is currently available for use. Currently, access copies of still images, text documents, and selected video files have been processed and are accessible to researchers.
Final Cut Pro project files, also available to researchers, were created in the film editing process and represent many iterations of the film. These files do not present a cumulative or consequtive picture of the editing process, but rather certain scenes in various stages of editing. The projects were created in Final Cut Pro 7, which is no longer supported by the current Macintosh operating system. In order to run this deprecated software, the Department of Special Collections, in collaboration with staff from the Stanford Media Preservation Lab recreated the operating environment on MacPro 5.1. This workstation is accessible in the Department of Special Collections.

Conditions Governing Access

Still images are available via SearchWorks: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12142651
Text and video files are discoverable via SearchWorks and available in the Department of Special Collections. Final Cut Pro project files are available in the Department of Special Collections on a dedicated workstation.
 

Series 5. House (trilogy)

 

Subseries 1. House (first film of the documentary trilogy) 1980

box 7, folder 8

Screenplay and post production screenplay in English

box 8, folder 1

Press coverage in English

box 8, folder 2

Press coverage in Hebrew and in German

flat-box 6, folder 4

Press coverage

 

Subseries 2. House in Jerusalem (second film of the documentary trilogy) 1980

box 8, folder 3

Synopsis in French

box 8, folder 3

DVD cover in French

box 8, folder 4

Katalog 34: Letni filmova skola

 

Subseries 3. News from home, News from house (third film of the documentary trilogy) 2001

box 8, folder 5

Synopsis in French

box 8, folder 5

Screenplay in French

box 8, folder 6

Photocopy of booklet for exposition at Architektur museum de TU Munich 2009

box 8, folder 6

Film program of Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona

box 8, folder 7

Press coverage in English

box 8, folder 7

Press coverage in French

 

Subseries 4. Trilogy borders 2005

box 8, folder 8

La trilogie des frontieres, Jean Michel Frodon, in French

box 8, folder 9

Trilogy houses, Jean Michel Frodon, in Hebrew

 

Series 5A. House (trilogy) born digital materials

Processing Information

Digital files related to the House trilogy films (in particular the documentary film News from Home/News from House), were stored on the following hard drives: ZEUS (Stanford identifier CM004), JUPITER (CM005), CAREFUL (CM007), HOUSE (CM009), EUROPA (CM010), AGAV (CM011), and 2017May (CM018). A separate set of files were captured by imaging selected files from Marie-José Sanselme's computer (Stanford identifier 20170920_MarieJose). The files related to the House trilogy films represent 1.341 terabytes of data, of which approximately 1.2 terabytes are currently available for use. The processed files consist of digital video files related to the film editing process. Access copies of video files were normalized for streaming.
These digital materials were processed in anticipation of a symposium on Amos Gitai in fall 2020.

Conditions Governing Access

Still images are available via SearchWorks: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12142651
Video files are discoverable via SearchWorks and available in the Department of Special Collections.
 

Series 6. Tsili 2008-2014

box 8, folder 10

Screenplay in French 2011-11-07

box 8, folder 11

Screenplay in French with revisions, no date

box 9, folder 1

Screenplay in French 2012-02-05

box 9, folder 2

Screenplay in French 2012-02-18

box 9, folder 3-5

Screenplay in Hebrew

box 9, folder 6

Shooting scene list

box 9, folder 7

The book (The Story of a Life) by Aaron Appelfeld was adapted to the film Tsili

box 9, folder 8

Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica la Biennale di Venezia 2014 - promotional material of the film

box 9, folder 8

Tsili, roman, by Aharon Appelfeld, 2 copies, one with annotations

box 9, folder 9

71. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica la Biennale di Venezia 2014 - catalog

box 9, folder 10

Press coverage in Italian - Film critica

 

Series 6A. Tsili born digital materials

Processing Information

Files related to the film Tsili were stored on drives M2266_2017-265_CM018-2017May (Stanford indentifer: CM018), MAREK (Stanford identifier: CM016), and SURIKA (Stanford identifier: CM017). These files include digital video, Final Cut Pro projects, still images, text documents, and metadata files related to the film editing process. Currently, access copies of still images and are accessible to researchers. Still images were normalized to .tiffs for preservation using Darktable.

Conditions Governing Access

Still images are available via SearchWorks: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12142651
Text and video files are discoverable via SearchWorks and available in the Department of Special Collections.
Collection Contents
Series 1. Promised Land
Series 2. Free Zone
Series 3. Disengagement
Series 4. One Day You'll Understand (Plus Tard, Tu Comprendras)
Series 4A. One Day You'll Understand (Plus tard, tu comprendras) born digital materials
Series 5. House (trilogy)
Subseries 1. House (first film of the documentary trilogy)
Subseries 2. House in Jerusalem (second film of the documentary trilogy)
Subseries 3. News from home, News from house (third film of the documentary trilogy)
Subseries 4. Trilogy borders
Series 5A. House (trilogy) born digital materials
Series 6. Tsili
Series 6A. Tsili born digital materials
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