maayan 5. pic: assaf kuriat

 maayan 4.  pic: Fahed Halabi 

Maayan 3 . Pic: Gilit Fischer

Maayan 2. Pic: Sadeh Halbrecht

Maayan 1. Pic: Maayan Strauss

Prose in English

 
Free Apples in Honey / Ayman Sikseck

Black Bear/ Reuven Shabat

I, Fahed / Roi Sagir

Articles in English

Films:  A Certain Tendency in Israeli Cinema / Joshua Simon

Architecture: Rabin awaits Safdie / Zvi Elhyani

Films: Our Arabs - Represantation of suffering palestinians in  Documentary

Gay Films: Good Children, Yair Hochner's low-budget film/ Liat Simon

Press Kit

Shiri Lev Ari, Haaretz Daily, Interview

Between 'poetry' and 'life', Daniel Oz on Maayan 2

La poésie du Négev (French, Canadian Magazine)

Manifestos

From Maarvon 1st issue Manifesto, 2006: "We offer a new magazine for cinema - Maarvon.. for us, films are not only themselves, but the entire discourse and culture that surrounds them. By that, and not only because of their length, film are similar to  soccer. In this magazine we seek to improve cinema, and not only explore it... "Maarvon" in Hebrew means western - an American film genre that many times seem to describe a general mood that resembles the atmosphere in Israel. "Maarvon" means also, in our language, a small west."
                                    

From Maayan 1st issue manifesto, 2005: "Maayan is a display window to new poetry. It is modern, in the same sense that car magazines [use to] revel in vehicles with special new gadgets, an extra gear, or a mechanism that can reduce pollution. It is electric poetry. Maayan's poetics lustfully suck and incorporate any linguistic register and layer... The poets of Maayan relish the characteristics of The Middle East. They are taking their heads out of the car window, shouting at the wind. Consumed with desire, they take in the smell of exhaust-fumes".

Maarvon 1

Joshua Simon - A Certain Tendency in Israeli Cinema
The aeasthetics of state funded films and the trend of Peripheral Mainstream. (the text)

Benny Ben David - Broken Bottles
On Keren yedaya's Mon Tresor. Femininity, poverty and folly.
Noam Yuran - Squeezed Lemon
The logic of Love-sex in Lemon Popsicle movie series.
Yoni Raz Portugali - From El Dorado to Chuck Norris
Menahem Golan's Jaffa, a memoir.
Liat Simon - Kids: Yair Hochner's Good Boys
Contemporary Israeli Gay cinema between Amos Guttman and Eitan Fox.
Mijal Greenberg - Rebelde way
On Political Telenovelas.
Glauber Rocha - The Aesthetics of Hunger
Preface and translation by Tzvi Tal.
Tom Shoval - Pickpocket: Jia Zhang-Ke - "The Most Contemporary of Filmmakers"
Yossi Atia - Film Guide: Four Cinema Stories from Jerusalem
Nimrod Kamer - Where's the conflict?
A student's correspondence with Sam Spiegel Film and Television School - Jerusalem (JSFS)
Roee Rosen - Basic Instinct meets the War in Iraq
Fragments
Ruti Sela - From: Una Proyeccion Solamente, 2001
Ari Libsker & Emanuel Gandelman - Storyboard from unrealized project

Editors

Joshua Simon and Roy Chicky Arad