From Page to Screen Series

Date: Saturday, October, 25, 2 PM
Location: Mountain Cinema in the Doctorow Center for the Arts, Rte 23A, Main St., Village of Hunter, NY
Information: 518-263-2050

Acclaimed short story writer & filmmaker Etgar Keret will appear at the Mountain Cinema to read from, discuss and sign copies of his latest book, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God. Hailed as the voice of young Israel and one of its most radical and extraordinary writers, Etgar Keret is internationally acclaimed for his short story. Born in Tel Aviv in 1967 to an extremely diverse family, his brother heads an Israeli group that lobbies for the legalization of marijuana, and his sister is an orthodox Jew and the mother of ten children. Keret regards his family as a microcosm of Israel. His book, The Nimrod Flipout, which was published in 2006, is a collection of 32 short stories that captures the craziness of life in Israel today. Rarely extending beyond three or four pages, these stories fuse the banal with the surreal. Shot through with a dark, tragicomic sensibility and casual, comic-strip violence, he offers a window on a surreal world that is at once funny and sad. As a filmmaker, Keret is the writer of several feature screenplays, including Skin Deep (1996), which won First Prize at several international film festivals and was awarded the Israeli Oscar. Jellyfish, his first movie as a director along with his wife Shira Geffen, won the coveted Camera d'Or prize for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival 2007. Keret is at present a lecturer in the film department at Tel Aviv University.

Jellyfish will be playing at the Mountain Cinema on June 2, 4, 5 @ 7pm & 9:30pm and on June 7, 8 @ 4pm