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Yossi Alfi: "It's Like Dying While You Are Alive" | Israel today

2021-01-05T06:53:17.076Z


After being forced to cancel the "Storytelling Festival" because of the Corona, the event was filmed without an audience and will be broadcast by the Broadcasting Corporation here | in what


After being forced to give up his life's work, "Storytelling Festival", this year, because of the corona, Alfie decided to film the event without an audience • The panels will be broadcast on the Broadcasting Corporation •

  • "I get up in the morning with immense anxiety."

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    Efrat Eshel

Last March, Yossi Alfi (75) had already finished preparing for the "storytelling festival" that was supposed to take place in October, on the holiday of Sukkot, as it has every year for 27 years.

But then the corona arrived and closed the world of culture.

The festival was shelved. 



After several months of waiting in anticipation that the halls would be re-beautified, Alfie realized that the stage was not currently in sight and decided to hold a filmed festival without an audience.

You can see the result here 11. For example, this coming Friday, ahead of International Physicians' Day (which will take place on January 11), a panel will be broadcast saluting doctors with Prof. Zion Hagai, Chairman of the Medical Association, Prof. Eitan Friedman, Prof. Galia Rahav , Dr. Ahmad Tibi and more. Other panels will be broadcast later here 11.



"Every year, close to 20,000 people come to the 'Storytelling Festival,'" Alfi says.

"This year we were preparing to celebrate the 27th festival in number. I made the preparations for the festival with excitement. I felt like a hero, I won the cancer. The mold on the festival went very easily and then everything exploded inside us. We went out to the hospital, sat at home and waited.

In June we were told ‘come on, you can start working.

And we really believed that by October it would be okay.

We went back to work on the festival, and then again, on June 15, we were closed.

Then the sponsorships started to fall. " 



He said," July and August were sad months.

I was hoping that something might happen that would allow the festival to take place.

When October came, we realized that a route needed to be recalculated.

We thought of doing the festival in Zoom, and in the end we decided to do it without an audience and film it.

Last month, we filmed some of the panels at the Givatayim Theater.

They will also air on TV here 11 and will also be broadcast on Radio B. " 



How was it to film the festival without an audience?



" Like in a theater, you need the audience's boost, and it would have been very difficult without it, so imagine it.

There was only a permit for ten people at the condenser, so there were five photographers and five crew members and that's it.

In terms of result I think it came out exceptional, but there is no applause and big laughs from the audience.

When you end the event, you are not in a state of hi, but in a state of low, but I believe that the feedback from the audience will come when they watch programs on television and listen to them on the radio. "

The world of culture has been dead for almost a year.

How do you cope?



"I've always lived in this world like I'll never die, but the Korna has made me realize that you can die while you're alive, and that's much worse than death. I'm doing zoom shows and filmed shows, but that's not it. I'm going to sleep at night with a terrible emptiness and get up in the morning with immense anxiety, and do not know my mind. Tomorrow's Industry '". 



At least you enjoy watching your son Guri surprise on TV in two great drama roles in the "The Cook" and "Blackspace" series.



"I'm not surprised at all. I was his first director in the musical 'The King and I'. Even then when I came home from rehearsals I said to my wife 'We have a master here at home, keep in mind you will have to salute him'. Thank God, my three children are very good people, each In his field. " 

Source: israelhayom

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