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WATCH: Waltz with Bashir animator creates short-film on Gaza blockade
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Waltz with Bashir 

An animator of the celebrated Israeli war film "Waltz with Bashir" has illustrated a new film depicting the life of a fictional boy in the Gaza Strip during the Israeli blockade of the coastal territory.

Yoni Goodman's short film "Closed Zone" runs only a minute and a half and was created for the NGO Gisha, a group devoted to freedom of movement.
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A spokesman for Gisha said that "though the use of a single animated character, Goodman tries to cause the viewer to feel empathy for the people of Gaza and see them as they are - a million and a half people who only want to live out their ambitions and dreams, something they cannot do because of their ability to move freely."

Goodman said that when making the film, "it was very important for me to create a character that anyone can connect to. I hope that when people see the movie, they will be able to detach themselves from the automatic view of good or bad.

"People talk about Hamas, but there are many civilians there who are not Hamas supporters but who are suffering from this blockade," Goodman added.

The film, a combination of animation and real-life scenes, follows a boy
chasing a blue bird while large hands block his way. The hands first cut
Gaza's borders in the ground with a giant cookie-cutter, then prevent the boy from crossing them.

The boy tries to row out to sea, but a hand turns him back. He then approaches Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt but is stopped by two hands wearing flag cuffs, one Egyptian, the other Israeli.

"I think many people see Israel as an aggressive country, but this is not my Israel, Goodman said.

"I want people in the West to see it, to see that there are people in Israel who are against war, who want peace."

Goodman was a the animation director for Ari Foldman's "Waltz with Bashir" which won a Golden Globe for best foreign film and a nomination for an Academy Award in the same category, but lost out to the Japanese film "Departures".

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      2.   Dreams 15:41  |  R. Goldrich 04/03/09
      3.   a moving image 15:55  |  Boris N. 04/03/09
      4.   NOW GIVE THAT BOY A KASSAM 15:58  |  Rich 04/03/09
      5.   animation in Gaza 16:10  |  suzanne Sapir 04/03/09
      6.   being objective 16:47  |  Tamar 04/03/09
      7.   a dishonest fable (but very artistic!) 16:47  |  Francis James 04/03/09
      8.   Stop Kasams and free Shalit then it opens. 17:02  |  Yusef 04/03/09
      9.   Israeli video 17:38  |  PCR 04/03/09
      10.   Israel and Kassams 17:54  |  EU 04/03/09
      11.   Their "ambitions and dreams" unfortunately are to destroy Israel 17:54  |  McQueen 04/03/09
      12.   Emigration, Instead of money to rebuild Gaza 18:28  |  Michael Hessler 04/03/09
      13.   Michael Hessler on occupied land 18:47  |  Janice 04/03/09
      14.   racism and the destruction of Israel 20:35  |  rickibobbi 04/03/09
      15.   violent dreams 21:12  |  ben 04/03/09
      16.   Animation in Gaza 21:41  |  Arlene 04/03/09
      17.   Why not use Gilad as character? 22:27  |  B`galil 04/03/09
      18.   Ambitions, Dreams, and Freedom of Movement 22:32  |  Victor Williams 04/03/09
      19.   rickibobbi 23:31  |  Beverly 04/03/09
      20.   Gaza blockade film 00:44  |  Carol 05/03/09
      21.   Response to 1 01:21  |  Marcelo 05/03/09
      22.   A different interpretation 01:23  |  Zach 05/03/09
      23.   The enemy defining you 01:24  |  Lester 05/03/09
      24.   Meanwhile in the Wet Bank... 01:47  |  Paulo Costa 05/03/09
      25.   Distort history and then believe in it. So poorly basic 01:50  |  Left Wing Democrat 05/03/09
      26.   so right fran 01:54  |  coro 05/03/09
      27.   From entertaining to meaningless 04:58  |  Eric 05/03/09
      28.   To Janice #13 05:02  |  Paul 05/03/09
      29.   To Paulo #24 05:03  |  Paul 05/03/09
      30.   To Paulo #24 05:04  |  Paul 05/03/09
      31.   Waltz with Bashir was amazing 07:02  |  Moshe 05/03/09
      32.   Gilad shalit 08:13  |  Andy 05/03/09
      33.   Cildren of Gaza 08:41  |  Jake 1948 05/03/09
      34.   to Paulo Costa and similars 08:57  |  Itamar 05/03/09
      35.   animation 11:03  |  zoe 05/03/09
      36.   Symbolic 11:14  |  A mother 05/03/09
      37.   I have news for you, folks 13:19  |  Nora 05/03/09
      38.   #28 Paul 13:33  |  PCR 05/03/09
      39.   The real life inside Gaza 16:51  |  e.l 05/03/09
      40.   #36 Dear Mother 16:58  |  erdinch 05/03/09
      41.   good work ! 20:24  |  Cath 05/03/09
      42.   Good work (2) 20:28  |  Cath 05/03/09
      43.   Dear #40 12:31  |  A mother 06/03/09
      44.   There`s an easy way to lift the "blocade" 21:09  |  Menachem 07/03/09
      45.   Not your Israel? I wish we had another 10:39  |  We are the baddies 08/03/09
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