The Garden (1999)
A film collaboration with dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones. It is included as part of “The Breathing Show” by Bill T. Jones.
1999, 8 min., color, sound, 16mm film and video.
The March (1999)
Details my mother’s recollections of the 1945 “death march” from Auschwitz.
1999, 25 min., color & b/w, sound, 16mm
The Boardwalk (1998)
The Brighton Beach – Coney Island boardwalk is a long winding oceanfront walkway adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. Photographed over a three year period, the landscape rendered reflects the seasonal changes, daily activities, and the filmmaker’s projected future.
1998, 29 min., b/w, silent, 16mm
Forgefeel (1997)
The landscape is a rendered playground at a San Francisco public school. Forgefeel is the Yiddish word for “premonition”.
1997, 12 min., color, sound, 16mm
Horse/Kappa/House (1995)
Inspired by the Legend of Tono, this film records the landscape in a number of small villages throughout Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
Forgotten Tenor (1994)
Pays tribute to Wardell Gray, considered by many one of the most unheralded tenor saxophonists in American Black Classical Music.
1994, 136 min., 16mm, sound
In Memory (1993)
A tribute and a projected memorial to members of my family and ALL those who died under Nazi occupation.
1993, 13 min., b/w, sound, 16mm
An Abu’s Warning (1992)
A 2oth century traveler comes to Japan and is confronted by a landscape – its inhabitants and cultural traditions quite different from his own experiences. Shot in the summer, 1987.
1992, 50 min., b/w, silent, 16mm
Everything’s For You (1989)
Reflects Mr. Ravett’s relationship with his deceased father – man who survived both the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz.
1989, 58 min., b/w, color, sound
The Balcony (1988)
The lives of people are observed within the confines of one twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard. Shot over a period of fifteen months and from one vantage point, THE BALCONY speculates on the evanescence of all our lives.
1988, 48 min., b/w, silent, 16mm
Jack Haber (1987)
A film about unheralded lives. Utilizing film material found and purchased in an antique shop, the filmmaker speculates on the life of one, Jack Haber.
1987, 15 min., b/w, silent, 16mm
Toncia (1986)
In one continuous twelve-minute take, the filmmaker talks with his mother about her daughter who was killed in Auschwitz.
1986, 13 min., color, sound, 16mm
Half-Sister (1985)
A recently discovered photograph of my half sister who was killed in the German concentration camp of Auschwitz inspires the imagination to conceive a life that would have been.
1985, 22 min., color, sound, 16mm
Zeger’s Note (1984)
A note from a friend in Holland invokes a series of memories and dreams from the past and reminds the maker of the fragility of his own existence.
1984, 17 min., color, sound, 16mm experimental film
A Calming Breeze (1984)
A look at birth and the rite of circumcision.
1984, 17 min., color, silent, 16mm experimental film.
Sara (1983)
A look at my daughter’s first three years of life.
1983, 130 min., 3/4″ video tape experimental documentary
After the Unveiling (1981)
A film about change. It is a personal documentary done in diary format of my mother’s life immediately following my father’s death. It begins with cultural rites proceeding death, that of sitting shiva, and goes on to record the many daily acts my mother once shared with her husband and now must face alone. Delineated, is the integral place that my mother’s religion and culture holds for her, the inevitable influence it has on me, and the resulting conflict that is created for my mother and myself by me selecting a mate from a different religious background.
1981, 129 min., color, sound, documentary film
Haverhill High (1979)
A direct cinema observation of student and faculty life at Haverhill High School in Haverhill, MA.
1979, 120 min., 3/4″ video tape documentary
Thirty Years Later (1978)
Utilizing a diary format, the camera is used to record the emotional and psychological impact of the Holocaust on two survivors and the influence this experience has had on their relationship with the filmmaker — their only remaining child.
1978, 43 min., color, sound, documentary film
The North End (1977)
THE NORTH END is a direct cinema observation of an Italian-American neighborhood in Boston, MA.
1977, 43 min., 3/4″ video tape documentary
Quelle Huere (1975)
An impressionistic view of New York City.
1975, 12 min., color, sound, film
