Academic Background and Fields of Interest
Pery is a filmmaker and a film scholar, born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1976. He holds a B.F.A degree (cum laude) in film and television from Sapir College and an M.A degree (summa cum laude) in cultural studies from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is currently writing his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "The Cinematic Logic of the Nazi Death Camp and Its Influence on Modern Post War Cinema".
He has been a lecturer at the Sapir Film School since 2006, and has been the Artistic Director of the Cinema South International Film Festival in Israel since 2007. He is the editor of Cinema South, a criticalanthology about cinema from three continents (Africa, Latin America and Asia).
Publications
- Erez Pery and Avner Faingulernt (Editors). Cinema South – critical anthology. Vol 4. Sapir College, Pardes Publishing House. Israel. 2010. (In Hebrew).
- Erez Pery and Avner Faingulernt (Editors). Cinema South – critical anthology. Vol 3. Sapir College, Pardes Publishing House. Israel. 2009. (In Hebrew).
- Pery, Erez. "Cinema\ Letter\ Image". Takriv (Close-Up)- Online magazine for discussion and critique of documentary film. No. 1. January 2011. (In Hebrew).