Eyal Sivan () is an Israeli documentary filmmaker, theoretician and scholar based in Paris, France. Early life Eyal Sivan is a Filmmaker, Writer and theoretician born in 1964 in Haifa, Israel; raised in Jerusalem; and based in Europe since 1985. As a teenager, Sivan abandoned formal education to dedicate himself to his hobbies, which were photography and political activism. Career After working as a professional commercial photographer in Tel Aviv, he left Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. He now splits his time between Europe and Israel. Known for his controversial films, Sivan has produced and directed more than a dozen political documentaries. Common State (2012), Jaffa (2009) and Route 181 (2003) won awards at various festivals. Sivan's films are regularly exhibited in art exhibitions including Documenta, Manifesta and ICP New York. His work touches on such themes as the representation of political crime; the political use of memory; the ethics of documentary filmmaking; and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is the founder and artistic director of the Paris-based documentary film company Momento ! and of the film distribution agency Scalpel. He created South Cinema Notebooks, a journal of cinema criticism published by the Sapir Academic College in Ashkelon. In response to a question by Aljazeera as to why so many "progressive and anti-Zionist academics, activists, and artists" are fleeing Israel, Sivan responded: "The veil of democracy is being ripped from Israeli faces." Academic postings Professor, Amsterdam University of the Arts, Nederlands Film Academy, Nederlands Associate Professor, Media Production, University of East London, School of Arts and Digital Industries, United Kingdom Honorary Fellow, European Centre for Palestinian Studies, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Visiting Professor, Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Visiting Professor, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy Visiting Professor, Sapir Academic College, School of Sound and Visual Arts, Ashkelon, Israel Filmography 2012 Common State, Potential Conversation 2009 Jaffa, the Orange's Clockwork 2007 Citizens K, the Twin Brothers 2005 Faces of the Fallen 2004 I Love You All / Aus Liebe Zum Volk (co-directed with Audrey Maurion) 2003 Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (co-directed with Michel Khleifi) 2001 On the Top of the Descent 1999 The Specialist, Portrait of a Modern Criminal 1997 Burundi, under Terror 1996 Itsembatsemba, Rwanda One Genocide Later 1995 Aqabat-Jaber, Peace with no Return? 1994 Jerusalem(s), Borderline Syndrome 1993 Itgaber, He Will Overcome - Conversations with Yeshayahou Lebowitz 1991 Israland 1990