Nurith Aviv


Nurtih Aviv is a French film director and director of photography who was born 11 March 1945, in Tel Aviv.

Biography

She has directed 12 documentary films, in which the topic of language is central to her personal and cinematographic exploration. As the first woman in France to have been officially recognized by the CNC as director of photography, Aviv has shot over 100 fiction and documentary films for directors like Agnès Varda, Amos Gitaï, René Allio, and Jacques Doillon.
In 2008, the Jeu de Paume held a retrospective of her films. She is the 2009 laureate of the Édouard Glissant prize. In 2015, a retrospective entitled Filiations, langues, lieux was held in her honor at the Centre Pompidou, where 40 films that she directed or shot were screened.

Filmography