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Benjamin Freidenberg
Film director and cinema studies scholar, lecturer at the Screen-Based Arts Department.
Graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film School with honors. Freidenberg holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University. His research focuses on the linkage between historical linguistics and the development of the filmic craft, specifically targeting the syntax and semantics of film.
He is currently writing his doctoral dissertation on film language and media archeology - a comparative study of visual languages such as ancient Egyptian and cinematography.
Friedenberg wrote for archival film projects of the Jerusalem Cinematheque, 'KAN' - Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation and the Israeli audio-visual collection of Harvard University. He programmed world cinema selection for the international film festivals of Rome, Hamburg and Jerusalem. Freidenberg is the CEO and Founder of Jerusalem Filmmakers Guild.
His short film Guided Tour has won many international awards and is currently developing his first full-length feature film.
