Associate Professor Dan Geva (Ph.D.) is a research fellow at the University of  Haifa.  He graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film School in 1994 with distinct honors and has been teaching there since. His debut, “Jerusalem; Rhythms of a Distant City” (1993) won the Volgin award and numerous international grand prizes.

He has created over 25 full-length documentary films, earning world acclaim in festivals and on broadcast platforms alike. Among the most notable are “Peace of the Brave”/1998, “What I saw in Hebron”/1999, “Routine”/2000, “The Key”/2001, “Fall”/2003, “Think Popcorn”/2004, and “Noise”/2012. and “The Documentarians” (2016). Geva teaches Film theory and practice, Ethics, and documentary history at Beit-Berl College and the Sam Spiegel Film Institute, among other educational institutions worldwide. His 2006 film “Description of a Memory,” an homage to Chris Marker’s classic “Description of a Struggle” (1960), has been celebrated as one of the Ten Best Documentaries of the 2000s. In 2012, it was screened at the Marker-Planet World Exposition at the Centre Pompidou. It was launched worldwide in a double DVD set with Marker’s restored classic—accompanied with a special edition booklet. His latest essay film is entitled “I Ecclesiastes” (2019).

As a Schusterman Grant awardee, Geva has served as a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Institute of Art (2010). He also taught, among other academic venues, at Hunter College in New York and IFS Köln, Germany.

He earned his MA and PhD with honors distinction in the interdisciplinary program at Tel Aviv University. His Dissertation is entitled “The Extended Sign of the Documentarian” (2015). Geva is the laureate of the TAU lucrative 2011 “Dan David Prize for Promising Researcher in Cinema and Society.” Geva has been announced the laureate of the “Leading International Pedagogue Teacher Award,” CILECT, 2017, and “Innovative Pedagogy Award,” Beit Berl College (BBC), 2020. Geva is an MGSDII visiting professor at UCSD, CA, 2024.

His first book (2018) for Palgrave Macmillan, NY, is entitled Toward a Philosophy of the documentarian. His second book (2019) for  CILECT and BBC is entitled The Ethics Lab Guidebook. In 2022, he published the second edition of The Ethics Lab Guidebook. His next book for Palgrave Macmillan is the first volume in the trilogy A Philosophical History of Documentary. It is entitled A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1895-1959. The third book for Plagrave and the second in the trilogy is A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1960-1990 (2025).

Currently, he is working on his third and final volume of the trilogy: A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1991-2025.

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