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Abraham Ravett was born in Poland in 1947, raised in Israel, and emigrated to the United States in 1955. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking and Photography and has been an independent filmmaker for the past forty years.
Total trailers found: 42
03 September 1979
A direct cinema observation of student and faculty life at Haverhill High School in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
02 June 2012
Prior to leaving Hampshire College in 1980, Tom was working on a 16mm film inspired by Jose Arguelles' book, The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression.
01 January 2012
If his father had lived beyond the age of seventy-four, the following may have been the cinematic response to the city where in 1944, he last saw his family.
01 January 1985
At 26, Abraham Ravett learned that his mother had previously been married and lost her family at Auschwitz, including his 6-year-old half-sister, Toncia.
27 June 1988
The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard in Trump Village, Brooklyn, New York.
01 January 2017
The filmmaker's search for the German teenage girl that took care of him between 1948-1950 in Walbrzych, Poland where he was born.
01 January 1984
A look at my son's birth and the rite of circumcision.
01 January 1986
In one continuous, twelve minute take, the filmmaker talks with his mother about her daughter who was killed in Auschwitz.
01 January 1999
Utilizing a series of conversations conducted over a thirteen year period between the filmaker and his mother, THE MARCH details one woman's recollections of the 1945 Death March from Auchwitz.
09 April 2019
Documentary about photographs shot inside of the Lodz ghetto.
01 January 1989
Filmmaker Abraham Ravett attempts to reconcile issues in his life as the child of a Holocaust survivor in this experimental non-narrative film.
01 January 1981
After the Unveiling is a film about change. It is a personal documentary done in diary format of my mother's life immediately following my father's death.
01 January 1994
Forgotten Tenor pays tribute to Wardell Gray, considered by many one of the greatest and most unheralded tenor saxophonists in American Black Classical Music.
22 June 1998
The Brighton Beach-Coney Island boardwalk is a long, winding, ocean front walkway adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean.
01 January 2002
Footage shot in 1976 of a performance by the legendary blues musician Furry Lewis, who was 83 years old at the time.
01 January 2009
"In the process of making The March, my mother spoke about the wooden shoes she and other inmates wore on their forced march out of Auschwitz.
01 January 1987
Jack Haber is a film about unheralded lives. Utilizing film material found and purchased in an antique shop, the filmmaker speculates on the life of one, Jack Haber.
01 January 2002
A response to the inklings that resonate ten years after a trip to Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
01 January 1977
The North End is a direct cinema observation of an Italian-American neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts.
01 January 2010
Sixty years after his family's departure, the filmmaker returns to the city where he was born.
01 January 2014
Joyas Voladoras pays tribute to unheralded musicians whose passion for their art continues to linger in the atmosphere.
13 April 2005
A film director visits his old mother in the hospital, evocating various kinds of memories.
01 January 2003
A moment remembered from a home that is no longer there.
01 January 2010
A contemporary, on-line archive of Polish amateur films made between the 1950's-1980's, provides an opportunity to reflect on stories of survival and attempts at reconciliation.
01 January 1984
A note from a friend in Holland invokes a series of memories and dreams from the past and reminds the filmmaker of the fragility of his own existence.
20 October 2007
A response to a colleague's memorial service.
01 July 1995
Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan is the setting for "The Legends of Tono," a unique collection of regional folktales, gathered in the early 20th century by Yanagita Kunio.
01 January 2020
A tribute to film critic, writer and filmmaker, Donald Richie who from the early 1980's was a friend and mentor.
01 January 2002
My son's unreturned motel key prompts the imagination to consider lives and "presences" left in that room.
04 October 2009
A recent article in the New York Times revealed that during the 1930's and 1940's administrators at Columbia University restricted the hiring of refugee, Jewish medical doctors by severely limiting the number of "non-Aryans" on their staff.
01 January 1999
Garden is a film collaboration with dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones. It is included as part of his solo performance The Breathing Show.
01 January 1992
A 20th century traveler comes to Japan and is confronted by a landscape, its inhabitants and cultural traditions quite different from his own experiences.
01 January 2024
Mokum is a film that explores the feeling of home experienced walking through the streets of Amsterdam during the filmmaker’s multiple trips to Holland.
01 January 1993
In this non-narrative, meditative, and poignant film, footage of life from the Lodz Ghetto is juxtaposed with the chanting of "Kel Maleh Rachamim," a plea to God to let the souls of those "slaughtered and burned" find peace.
