Udi Aloni

Director, writer, artist

Udi Aloni is a filmmaker, writer, and artist whose work focuses on the interrelations between art, philosophy and activism. His movies and visual art projects have been presented in various leading museums, galleries, and film festivals around the world, his book “What Does a Jew Want: On Bi-nationalism and Others Specters” was published by Columbia University Press. His work includes correspondences with the most pre-eminent philosophers of our time, including, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Naomi Klein, and Slavoj Žižek who wrote on Aloni: "Aloni's secular theology is definitely one of the most fascinating innovations of our time”. Aloni was teaching in the Freedom theater Jenin refugee camp till the assassination of his friend the late Juliano Mer Khamis and this days he is a guest lecturer at The Barenboim Said Academy in Berlin. Among his many awards are: Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature and Fairbindet Prize at the Berlinale International Film Festival; and Best Feature Film at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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