Written Publications (non-exhaustive list)
For the academic and cultural boycott of the State of Israel: a case for peaceful resistance against the use of culture and academia as a showcase for power.
Facing the deadlock of partition, an essay arguing for a common, shared state between Israelis and Palestinians, accompanied by a film of twenty-four cross-interviews.
Drawing on the archives of the Eichmann trial and the film The Specialist, a reflection on obedience and its uses, from collaboration to submission.
On the failure of the Zionist project in its protective function, the sense of defeat that has gripped Israeli society since October 7, 2023, and the violence unleashed on Gaza as a measure of that collapse.
In this book, photographer Martin Barzilai portrays, in text and image, those in Israel who refuse to do their military service rather than fight a dirty war in Gaza or the West Bank.
Between 2007 and 2017, photographer Martin Barzilai repeatedly met with some fifty Israelis known as “refuzniks,” who refuse, for political or moral reasons, to serve a society militarized to the extreme, where military service is constitutive of citizenship.
A conversation between art historian Antonia Majaca and Eyal Sivan built around fragments of canonical documentary films, revisiting the Documentary Moments (2010) and Montage Interdit (2012) programs presented at the Berlin Documentary Forum. In Documentary Across Disciplines, edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg.
A text on the history of postwar documentary practice, published on the occasion of the Documentary Moments: Renaissance program at the Berlin Documentary Forum.
Catalogue of the exhibition bringing together filmed testimonies of former 1948 Zionist combatants, collected by Ronit Chacham and Eyal Sivan. Curator: Eyal Sivan — academic curator: Prof. Ilan Pappé.
First column written in Israel for the journal De l'autre côté, during a year of teaching at the Sapir Academy in the Negev.
Second column for the journal De l'autre côté, written in the context of the 2006 Lebanon war.
Column written in Poland for the journal De l'autre côté, during a shoot for Arte.
Column for the journal De l'autre côté.
Final column in the series for the journal De l'autre côté.
Collective journal issue devoted to contemporary archival practices — institutional databases, personal archives, family albums. Eyal Sivan contributes to this issue alongside some fifteen authors and artists.
Chapter on the status of archival images in the Eichmann trial.
Booklet produced in tribute to the filmmaker during his artist residency at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam, centered on the figure of the perpetrator, with an interview conducted by Suzanne Wallinga.
Essay on the historical amnesia of Israeli cinema regarding pre-1948 Palestine and the Nakba, with a critical analysis of three films by Amos Gitaï.
Chapter on Palestinian refugee camps as a permanent state of exception.
Illustrated chapter on the notion of the border.
Article in Hebrew on betrayal, loyalty and engagement.
Article in Hebrew published in the South Cinema Notebooks.
Interview with Yeshayahu Leibowitz.
Book in Italian devoted to the cinema of Eyal Sivan.
Chapter on Shlomi Elkabetz's film Edut and the question of testimony.
Chapter on the political uses of memory in documentary practice and the archive.
First version of this text on the political uses of memory, published in 2000.
Article on the uses of international criminal justice and history in confronting crimes against humanity.
Foreword to the catalogue of Basma AlSharif's exhibition Doppelgänging.
Article published on 07.02.2006 about the evacuation of the Amona outpost and the power of television images to conceal.
Text co-written with Junji Hori on the work of memory, published in the Japanese journal Zen-ya.
Text on the uses of the archive in truth and reconciliation processes, presented at Documenta in Kassel.
Op-ed published in Le Monde on the conflation of anti-Zionism and antisemitism within the Jewish community in France.
Chapter on the staging and marketing of memory in history museums.
Chapter in Italian on memory and archives in relation to the representation of the Shoah in cinema.
Article co-written with Philippe Mesnard on representations of the Shoah.
Book review devoted to national stereotypes in Hebrew children's literature.
Article published on the Kedma website on the occasion of the Jerusalem Gay Pride march.
Op-ed on the political use of Shoah references in the debate over the 2005 Gaza disengagement.
Response to accusations of falsification leveled against The Specialist, and a defense of editing as an act of avowed subjectivity.
Letter in which Eyal Sivan declines the invitation of the Forum des images in Paris and denounces the complicit silence of Israeli cultural circles.
Essay on editing as an act of selection, on the occasion of a top-ten list of documentary films for IDFA.
Op-ed of support for the Utopia cinema network after its decision to postpone the release of an Israeli film in response to the attack on the Gaza flotilla.