David Perlov

David Perlov was born in 1930 in Rio de Janeiro

Perlov was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1930 and grew up in Belo Horizonte. At 10 he moved to São Paulo to live with his grandfather. There he joined the Zionist youth movement Dror and later became one of its leaders.

In 1952 he moved to Paris, where he studied art and turned to photography and cinema. He worked as a projectionist at the Cinematheque and as an editor with Joris Ivens. In 1957 he made his first short film, Tante chinoise.

In 1958 he immigrated to Israel with his wife Mira and settled on Kibbutz Bror Hayil. In 1961 the family moved to Tel Aviv. He made documentaries for public bodies, including In Jerusalem in 1963, and the feature films 42:6 and The Pill.

In 1973 he bought a 16 mm camera and filmed his daily life and events in Israel for 10 years, producing Diary. That year he helped found the film and television department at Tel Aviv University, where he became a full professor. He also taught at the Sam Spiegel Film School.

From 1998 he worked on Revised Diary, and in his last years he focused on photography. His last film, My Stills, was released in 2003. He died in Tel Aviv in 2003 and was buried in Einat.