David Perlov
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David Perlov was an Israeli filmmaker who was born in 1930 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and died in 2003 in Tel-Aviv.
Perlov is considered to be one of the most prominent filmmakers in Israeli cinema and perhaps the founder of the Israeli documentary cinema. He became internationally famous for his Cinematic Essays and, above all, for his film "Diary".
He spent his childhood in Belo Horizonte. At the age of 10, he moved to São Paulo.
In 1957 in Paris he made Tante chinoise (Old Aunt China), based on caustic drawings of a young girl of 12 years of the French provincial bourgeoisie of 1890 which he found in the cellar of the house he was living in.
In 1958, he emigrated to Israel where in 1963 he made the 33 minutes documentary In Jerusalem (בירושלים, Be-Yerushalayim). This film became to be one of the most important films of Israeli documentary cinema.
Although Perlov managed to make two feature films by 1972 ("The Pill" and 42:6), his film proposals were being repeatedly rejected by the Israeli establishment and the IBA. In early 1973 David Perlov decided to buy a 16 mm camera and film his everyday life alongside dramatic events that took place in Israel at the time. He had done so for 10 years until in 1983 Channel 4 of the British television showed their interest in screening the film. The result was Perlov's epic work Yoman (יומן, diary).
Since 1973 Perlov had been teaching at the department of film & television in Tel Aviv University.
In 1999 Perlov received the Israel Prize for his contribution to Israeli cinema. Four years later he died in Tel-Aviv.
