The Seven Tapes

Overview

A cinematic journey into the world of Yona Wallach, an Israeli poet, whose radical life and poetry ended with her death at an early age, leaving behind a myth and a trail of admirers. More than 25 years after her death, seven recorded tapes from her last interview, which were made with Helit Yeshurun, are discovered. In these tapes, Wallach confesses to her attraction to madness, her experiments with drugs, her relationship with god and about the dangers of writing. The film weaves her testimony with interviews, with rare archival footage, with her poems and with animation that revives Wallach's thoughts, images and visions.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

July 17, 2012

Original language

Hebrew

Spoken languages

Hebrew

Cast

Yona Wallach

Director

Yair Qedar

Budget

$200,000

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt3782890