Keeping the Kibbutz

Keeping the Kibbutz is a 2010 American documentary film codirected by Ben Crosbie and Tessa Moran about the Israeli kibbutz, which explores the background and history of the kibbutz movement and how the movement has changed to meet economic needs. The film is Eidolon Films first feature production, and received a 2012 Telly Award.

According to Tessa Morgan, the experience on the kibbutz represented a universal human desire to identify oneself through community. The question at the center of the story what happens when that community changes? University of Victoria professor and blogger, David Leach, has compared the film to other recent kibbutz documentaries in terms of the five stages of grief each appears to represent whereas Degania The First Kibbutz Fights Its Last Battle 2008 documents anger and bargaining, and Kibbutz 2005 depression, in Keeping the Kibbutz, we get to see kibbutzniks who have reached that fifth and final stagewho have accepted, however reluctantly, the changes that have overtaken their community but still look back with fondness and nostalgia at the unique communal society from which they all emerged. ........

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