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Genre/Form: | Documentaries and Factual Films Documentary films History Documentaires |
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Material Type: | Videorecording |
Document Type: | Visual material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jordan Bahat; Chevy Chen; Hans Zimmer; Aleksey Igudesman; Daniel Hamilton; Noah M Rosenthal; Seventh Art Releasing (Firm) |
OCLC Number: | 766004639 |
Language Note: | In English, German, Polish, with English subtitles. |
Credits: | Producers, Jordan Bahat, Chevy Chen ; Hans Zimmer, Aleksey Igudesman, composers ; Daniel Hamilton, director of photography ; Noah M. Rosenthal, 2nd Unit cinematographer. |
Performer(s): | Jordon Bahat, narrator. |
Description: | 1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Details: | DVD, NTSC ; Region 1. |
Responsibility: | a film by Jordan Bahat. |
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Educational Media Reviews Online (1)
Jealous of the Birds

The film has a wonderful lyrical quality thanks to Bahat’s editing and the soundtrack by Hans Zimmer and Aleksey Igudesman, somewhat masking the monstrousness of the subject with the beauty of the filmmaking. Not to suggest that the reality of the “life” is not depicted in the film but viewing it through the lens of the filmmaker does make it more digestible. In that way it’s reminiscent of this year’s Academy Award winning narrative film 12 Years a Slave (also scored by Hans Zimmer) which unflinchingly presents the realities of slavery but with such beautiful cinematography and performances that the experience provides a window into reliving the horrors of history. Bahat also uses filmmaking and concepts of representation to provide a philosophical structure to the emotional elements of the film. He depicts tape recorders labeled with the names of the interview subjects as the voiceover of the interviews are heard. Much of the found footage is framed within an old 1950s television set. He constantly reminds the audience that he is the intermediary presenting the story, as his grandmother told us he would be from the very beginning. Jealous of the Birds would be an excellent asset for not only a course on documentary or media studies but for numerous other disciplines as well. Paired with a documentary such as One Day After Peace (following an Israeli woman who goes to South Africa in order to learn more about Truth & Reconciliation after the killing of her son by a Palestinian), or a narrative film such as Kinyarwanda (about the possibility of forgiveness in post-war Rwanda) the film would provide a different perspective on reconciliation and the concept of forgiveness. As Izzadore Kaminer a psychoanalyst survivor specialist interviewed in the film remarks “you cannot undo it.” So the question remains and is so palpable in this documentary – how do you survive after the catastrophe has happened? And that question in this film applies both to the victims and the perpetrators.
Awards
- Best Original Score Rhode Island Film Festival


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- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1945-1990.
- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1990-
- Holocaust survivors -- Germany -- History.
- Germany -- Ethnic relations.
- Juifs -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 1945-1990.
- Juifs -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 1990-
- Survivants de l'Holocauste -- Allemagne -- Histoire.
- Ethnic relations.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews.
- Germany.