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Children of the Sun, a film by Ran Tal showed last night to at the Cumberland theatre. In this very intimate look at the history of children born on the kibbutzim, the audience is taken down memory lane with video footage taken from 1930-1970 along with photographs that depicted what life was like in this setting.
The director himself was born on a kibbutz; thus, this account is also a way of telling his own childhood story. This film shows the "good and bad," according to Tal, of growing up in this environment. He stayed after the screening to answer audience's questions and to tell us more about the making of this film. A member of the audience commented on Tal's use of audio; this person liked how the audio "created an abstraction of memory." Tal was very grateful for this comment; he said that he wanted those who grew up in the kibbutz to be the ones to tell the story.
Tal also shared how much research was required in the making of this documentary. However, he stated he has "a fetish for archives," which made the job even more interesting. The film shows a great history of a commune style of living some of us may not know much about. It is an educational experience.
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