Photo by Kane Stewart 1994

Abraham Ravett was born in Poland in 1947, raised in Israel and emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1955. He holds a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Filmmaking and Photography and has been an independent filmmaker for the past thirty years.

Mr. Ravett received grants for his work from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Artists Foundation Inc, Boston, MA., The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, The Japan Foundation, The Hoso Bunka Foundation, the LEF Fondation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. His films have been screened internationally including the Museam of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA., S.F. Cinematheque, L.A. Forum, Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan, and Scratch Projection, Paris.
His films were recently presented in an installation at the WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland.
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Mr. Ravett teaches filmmaking and photography at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.

You can e-mail Abraham Ravett at aravett@hampshire.edu