• ALLEYS | NILI PORTUGALI | Architect . Filmmaker. Author

  • Jun 14 2023
  • Length: 33 mins
  • Podcast

ALLEYS | NILI PORTUGALI | Architect . Filmmaker. Author

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  • A seventh generation descendent of family who lived in Sefad, Israel, the city where mystical scholars of the Kabbalah found refuge in the 16th Century; Nili Portugali is an architect, filmmaker and author. We discuss her film “And the Alley She Whitewashed in Light Blue”, a stunning, poetic, visual masterpiece of the seasonal rituals in her Grandmother Rivka’s hotel, at the end of an alley in that old city. The film is one of her many works which seek to find a universal answer to the question “What is the basis of all those places in which one feels at home, and wants to return to, again and again?”

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