{{Short description|Israeli documentary filmmaker (born 1964)}} {{Moresources|date=September 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}}
{{Infobox person | name = Eyal Sivan | native_name = אייל סיון | native_name_lang = he | image = Eyal Sivan 2 color.jpg | caption = Sivan in 2014 | birth_date = 9 September 1964 | birth_place = Haifa, Israel | occupation = Filmmaker | spouse = Armelle Laborie | website = {{URL|eyalsivan.info}} | footnotes = }}
'''Eyal Sivan''' ({{langx|he|אייל סיון}}) is an Israeli documentary filmmaker, theoretician and scholar based in Paris, France.
== Career == After working as a professional commercial photographer in Tel Aviv, he left Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. He now splits his time between Europe and Israel. Sivan has produced and directed more than a dozen political documentaries. ''Common State'' (2012), ''Jaffa'' (2009) and ''Route 181'' (2003) won awards at various festivals.{{Citation needed|date = November 2014|reason = Needs reliable, third-party sources to allow for verification – Not from Eyal Sivan, his companies or Press Releases – in order to keep this claim in the article.}}
Sivan's films are regularly exhibited in art exhibitions including Documenta, Manifesta and ICP New York. His work touches on such themes as the representation of political crime; the political use of memory; the ethics of documentary filmmaking; and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is the founder and artistic director of the Paris-based documentary film company Momento ! and of the film distribution agency Scalpel. He created ''South Cinema Notebooks'', a journal of cinema criticism published by the Sapir Academic College in Ashkelon. In response to a question by ''Aljazeera'' as to why so many "progressive and anti-Zionist academics, activists, and artists" are fleeing Israel, Sivan responded: "The veil of democracy is being ripped from Israeli faces."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hammad|first=Sousan|title=Q&A: Eyal Sivan speaks to Al Jazeera|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2011/5/22/qa-eyal-sivan-speaks-to-al-jazeera|access-date=2020-11-23|publisher=Al Jazeera}}</ref>
==Pledge== In September 2025, Sivan signed an open pledge with Film Workers for Palestine pledging not to work with Israeli film institutions "that are implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Film Workers Pledge to End Complicity |url=https://filmworkersforpalestine.org/#endingcomplicity |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=Film Workers For Palestine |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Academic postings== *Professor, Amsterdam University of the Arts, Nederlands *Associate Professor, Media Production, University of East London, School of Arts and Digital Industries, United Kingdom *Honorary Fellow, European Centre for Palestinian Studies, University of Exeter, United Kingdom *Visiting professor, Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands *Visiting professor, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy *Visiting professor, Sapir Academic College, School of Sound and Visual Arts, Ashkelon, Israel
==Filmography== * 2012 ''Common State, Potential Conversation '' * 2009 ''Jaffa, the Orange's Clockwork'' * 2007 ''Citizens K, the Twin Brothers'' * 2005 ''Faces of the Fallen'' * 2004 ''I Love You All / Aus Liebe Zum Volk'' (co-directed with Audrey Maurion) * 2003 ''Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel'' (co-directed with Michel Khleifi) * 2001 ''On the Top of the Descent'' * 1999 ''The Specialist, Portrait of a Modern Criminal'' * 1997 ''Burundi, under Terror'' * 1996 ''Itsembatsemba, Rwanda One Genocide Later'' * 1995 ''Aqabat-Jaber, Peace with no Return?'' * 1994 ''Jerusalem(s), Borderline Syndrome'' * 1993 ''Itgaber, He Will Overcome – Conversations with Yeshayahou Lebowitz'' * 1991 ''Israland'' * 1990 ''Izkor, Slaves of Memory'' * 1987 ''Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through''
==Other visual works== * 2012 ''Towards a common archive, testimonies of Zionist veterans of 1948. Multi screens video show.'' * 2012 ''Montage Interdit. Berlin Documentary Forum 2 New practices across disciplines. Haus der Kulturen der Welt [www.hkw.de]'' * 2010 ''Documentary moments 1 : Renaissance. Berlin Documentary Forum 1 New practices across disciplines. Haus der Kulturen der Welt'' * 2009 ''Fragmented memory of spectatorship. Top 10 documentary programme IDFA Amsterdam '' * 2008 ''Happy birthdays, towards a common archive – fragment 1. Multi screens video Installation'' * 2001 ''Scalpel / Skalpel. (concept & artistic director) TV magazine for ARTE'' * 1994 ''Jerusalem, Jerusalems. Conception and direction of a Theme evening for ARTE'' * 1988 ''Progressive list for Peace. TV spots''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website}} * Eyal Sivan on culture base [http://culturebase.net/artist.php?4154 www.culturbase.net] *The Barber Trial: Sivan vs. Finkielkraut Cabinet Magazine Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman [http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/sivanintro.php www.cabinetmagazine.org]
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