In Episode Five of Jewish Food for Thought: An Animated Series, “Love & Fear (Part Two)”, Hanan and his parents discuss the reasons why people use fear to feel powerful.
They discuss the ways that people use fear in order to feel in control. In thinking about fear, Hanan and his parents discuss Adam and Eve, and the fear that they felt after eating from the tree of knowledge.
Please let us know your thoughts. What did this animation make you think about? Do you use fear in order to feel more in control?.
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Hanan Harchol is a multimedia artist, born in Israel, who moved to the US as a child. Harchol creates paintings, drawings, animations, videos, and multimedia installations that explore the human condition through family narratives.Harchol earned a Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Highest Honors from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Harchol received a 1998 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, and The Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Ronnie Heyman Prize in 2004. Harchol was awarded a 2011 Covenant Foundation Signature Grant. Harchol’s work has been published in the book “Jewish Art In America: An Introduction”, by Prof. Baigell, and reviewed in ARTnews, The Chicago Tribune, and The Jewish Week.Harchol has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries across the country, and his films and animations have been broadcast on Channel 13 (WNET) and in nearly 100 film festivals worldwide. Harchol is also a professional classical guitarist with eight CD releases.
Latest posts by Hanan Harchol (see all)
- Episode Seven: Looking In Other People’s Windows (Envy) - April 10, 2013
- Episode Six: Love & Fear (Part Three) - September 14, 2012
- Episode Five: Love & Fear (Part Two) - September 5, 2012