The Shagrir Collection holds thousands of documents that trace the working relationships Micha Shagrir built across decades of journalistic and filmmaking…
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A technical look at Shagrir’s camera equipment over the decades begins with the archive rather than a catalogue of famous brands. Micha Shagrir worked across…
In mid-September 1982, the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila on the outskirts of Beirut became the site of one of the most harrowing episodes of…
The Shagrir Collection holds thousands of negatives, contact sheets, film reels, and personal papers that, on first inspection, appear to belong to political…
In the last months of Mandate Palestine, a young Micha Shagrir was already threading through olive groves and stone courtyards with a 16mm camera on his…
For decades, the corridors of Israeli power were rarely captured with the intimacy and persistence seen in the work of Micha Shagrir. A filmmaker, producer,…
For decades, the hum of a Studer or a Nagra tape machine was the heartbeat of broadcast journalism. Today, those same machines sit in cold-storage rooms across…
Micha Shagrir’s photographs from the Sinai Peninsula after 1967 offer a visual record of a territory being encountered, administered and imagined through…
Micha Shagrir’s place in Israeli screen history is closely connected with the effort to preserve national memory through moving images. His work as a…
The 1973 oil crisis was experienced through more than petrol prices and diplomatic statements. In Israel, it unfolded alongside the Yom Kippur War, military…
