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Ari Libsker

Ari Libsker is an Israeli documentary filmmaker and journalist, known for his film Stalags.

born 1972The documentary StalagsBusiness journalism at CalcalistInfiltrating Ehud Barak's apartment

Ari Libsker
Occupation
film director, journalist, screenwriter, film producer

Ari Libsker was born in 1972 in Haifa

Ari Libsker was born in Haifa in 1972. In the late 1990s he was one of the founders of the Free Academy group.

He has directed several documentaries. His 2004 film on circumcision was aired by Channel 2 at a late hour after the channel tried to censor it. His film Stalags examined the pornographic booklets about Nazi camps that circulated in Israel in the early 1960s, and it won several awards.

Since 2004 he has been on the editorial board of Maayan, a journal of poetry and ideas, and of the film magazine Maarvon. He also took part in art exhibitions and curated the exhibition Iran in 2012.

As a journalist he wrote for Firma magazine of Globes and later for Calcalist. In 2010 he posed as a rich Croatian buyer to enter the apartment of defense minister Ehud Barak for an article.

Milestones in Ari Libsker's life

  1. 1972

    Born in Haifa.

  2. 2002

    Acted in a short film by the Baboon group.

  3. 2004

    Made a documentary about circumcision.

  4. 2006

    Presented the video work Magic 2 at the Minshar gallery in Tel Aviv.

  5. 2008

    Released the documentary Stalags.

  6. 2010

    Posed as a buyer to enter Ehud Barak's apartment for an article.

  7. 2012

    Co-curated the exhibition Iran in Tel Aviv.

  8. 2013

    Published the novella The Documentarist.

  9. 2014

    Directed the documentary Disintegration.

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Based on English Wikipedia, Ari Libsker and Hebrew Wikipedia, ארי ליבסקר, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The facts are Wikidata's.

Photograph: Gal deren, Public domain

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