ARI LIBSKER

'Ari Libsker' (Hebrew: 'ארי ליבסקר'), born in the Haifa, is a young Israeli filmmaker and journalist. He has made several documentaries.
One of his first ones, ''Circumcision'' (Israel 2004, 30 min, channel 2) dealt with the affection of circumcision on the sex life of Jewish people, connecting it to castration. Channel 2 tried to censor the movie and in the end broad-casted it at a late hour. The movie got a lot of responses and critics. A year later Libsker made ''The Home Poem'' (Israel 2006, 60 min.) a movie that followed three people, one of them his grandmother and their relation to home. (The name "Home Poem" is in respect to the same titled book by poet Aharon Shabtai).
Daily Libsker is a film tutor and a business journalist for Firma magazine (Globes), the Israeli financial paper.
In the late 1990s he founded, with others the "Free Academy" group. Since 2004 he co-edites Maayan Magazine, a magazine of poetry and ideas, and Maarvon - Israel's only film magazine. One of their exhibitions was named "I Slept with Ari Libsker" and was held on a roof in Tel Aviv, another one was named "Sharon" on the connection between the wealthy Sharon plain area in Israel and the late PM Ariel Sharon.
In May 2006 Libsker presented a video work called ''"Magic 1"'' at the exhibition ''Doron'' that refers to Doron Sabag, exhibited in the Minshar gallery of Tel Aviv. It dealt with art and workers rights.
On 2007 Libsker is working on a new feature documentary film called "Stalags". During the early 1960s in Israel and the Adolf Eichmann trial "Stalags" were pornographic booklet describing masochistic brutal sex relationship between Nazi women warders and concentration camp prisoners. The film [1]analyzes the reasons behind the phenomenon.
On September 6th, 2007 Libsker was interviewed for The New York Times on a story concerning the pre-release of his film. From the story: ''“I realized that the first Holocaust pictures I saw, as one who grew up here, were of naked women,” said Ari Libsker, whose documentary film “Stalags: Holocaust and Pornography in Israel” had its premiere at the Jerusalem Film Festival in July and is to be broadcast in October and shown in movie theaters. “We were in elementary school,” he noted. “I remember how embarrassed we were.”.'' [2].

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★ Israel’s Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial a sotry on Ari Libskers's "Stalags" film, by Isabel Kershner, The New York Times, 6.9.2007. IHT with voice article [3].

★ "Fiction Memory" On Ari Libsker's new film "Stalags" from Haaretz, 24.1.2007 , [4].

★ Magazine story on the Stalags premiere in The Jerusalem Film Festival July 2007, .

★ Libsker's videos at Google video

★ "Eat And Drink Before Your Dead-Line" An article by Ari Libsker .

★ ''Circumcision'' film by Ari Libsker, 2004.