(1975), 12 min., color, sound film.
An impressionistic view of New York City.
(1977), 120 min., 3/4" video tape documentary.
THE NORTH END is a direct cinema observation of an Italian-American neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts.
(1978), 43 min., color, sound, documentary film.
Utilizing a diary format, the camera is used to record the emotional and psychological impact of the Holocaust on two survivors and the influence this experience has had on their relationship with the filmmaker -- their only remaining child.
(1979), 120 min., 3/4" video tape documentary.
A direct cinema observation of student and faculty life at Haverhill High School, in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
(1981), 129 min., color, sound, documentary film.
After the Unveiling is a film about change. It is a personal documentary done in diary format of my mother's life immediately following my father's death. It begins with cultural rites proceeding death, that of sitting “shiva”, and goes on to record the many daily acts my mother once shared with her husband and now must face alone. Delineated, is the integral place that my mother's religion and culture holds for her, the inevitable influence it has on me, and the resulting conflict that is created for my mother and myself by me selecting a mate from a different religious background.
(1983), 130 min. 3/4" video tape experimental documentary.
A look at my daughter's first three years of life.
(1984), 17 min., color, silent, 16mm experimental film.
A look at birth and the rite of circumcision.
(1984), 17 min., color, sound, 16mm experimental film.
A note from a friend in Holland invokes a series of memories and dreams from the past and reminds the maker of the fragility of his own existence.
(1985), 22 min., color, sound, 16mm experimental film.
A recently discovered photograph of my half-sister who was killed in the German concentration camp of Auschwitz, inspires the imagination to conceive a life that would have been.
(1986), 13 min., color, sound, 16mm.
In one continuous, twelve minute take, the filmmaker talks with his mother about her daughter who was killed in Auschwitz.
(1987), 15 min., black & white, silent, 16mm. Jack Haber is a film about unheralded lives. Utilizing film material found and purchased in an antique shop, the filmmaker speculates on the life of one, Jack Haber.
(1988), 48 min., black & white, silent, 16mm.
The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard. Shot over a period of fifteen months and from one vantage point, THE BALCONY speculates on the evanescence of all our lives.
(1989), 58 min., b/w & color, sound, 16mm.
A film which reflects the filmmaker's relationship with his deceased father, a man who survived both the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz. The film utilizes a combination of previously shot material (1974-78), family photographs, archival footage, optically printed current footage, cell animation sequences (by Emily Hubley), and computer graphics to create a mosaic, a meditation on filial relationships. Dialogue is in both English and Yiddish.
(1992), black & white, 50 min. silent, 16mm.
A 20th century traveler comes to Japan and is confronted by a landscape, its inhabitants and cultural traditions quite different from his own experiences. Shot in the summer, 1987.
Abraham Ravett
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Florence, MA 01062 USA
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