Abraham Ravett

Landscapes observed in Poland and the USA.

At 26, Abraham Ravett learned that his mother had previously been married and lost her family at Auschwitz, including his 6-year-old half-sister,...

A direct cinema observation of student and faculty life at Haverhill High School in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

"In the process of making The March, my mother spoke about the wooden shoes she and other inmates wore on their forced march out of Auschwitz. She...

The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard in Trump...

Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan is the setting for "The Legends of Tono," a unique collection of regional folktales, gathered in the early...

The Brighton Beach-Coney Island boardwalk is a long, winding, ocean front walkway adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. Photographed over a three year...

Filmmaker Abraham Ravett attempts to reconcile issues in his life as the child of a Holocaust survivor in this experimental non-narrative film....

In this non-narrative, meditative, and poignant film, footage of life from the Lodz Ghetto is juxtaposed with the chanting of "Kel Maleh Rachamim," a...

Prior to leaving Hampshire College in 1980, Tom was working on a 16mm film inspired by Jose Arguelles' book, The Transformative Vision: Reflections...

A cinematic response to grief and loss.

a film by Abraham Ravett

Documentary about photographs shot inside of the Lodz ghetto.

A film director visits his old mother in the hospital, evocating various kinds of memories.

Utilizing a series of conversations conducted over a thirteen year period between the filmaker and his mother, THE MARCH details one woman's...

The filmmaker's search for the German teenage girl that took care of him between 1948-1950 in Walbrzych, Poland where he was born.

If his father had lived beyond the age of seventy-four, the following may have been the cinematic response to the city where in 1944, he last saw his...

A look at my son's birth and the rite of circumcision.