Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Zero Degrees of Separation

Elle Flanders 2006 Canada Documentary color 89min English Betacam
Zero Degrees of Separation looks at the current Middle East conflict through the lives of two mixed Palestinian and Israeli gay couples. Distilling the everyday acts of courage and resistance and interwoven with her grandparents' archival footage of the early days of Zionism, director Elle Flanders takes us on a unique and beautifully cinematic tour of the dream and the reality of Israel and Palestine.

Director

Elle Flanders

ELLE FLANDERS Elle Flanders is a photographer and filmmaker. Her award-winning feature documentary, Zero Degrees of Separation about the conflict in Israel and Palestine as experienced by two Israeli-Palestinian mixed gay couples, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2005. In 1989 she photographed women's resistance to the occupation during the first Intifada and exhibited in North America as Crossing Borders: Israel Palestine, A Photographer's Peace Initiative. In 1995, as a fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, she began making film and installation work.Her short film Once, a look at Yiddish and the utopian desire for home, premiered at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival. She is currently working on a new feature documentary.