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Eliyahu Wonda was born and raised in Jerusalem, to a religious Ethiopian family that immigrated to Israel in 1991. He spent most of his youth wandering around the city and spraying graffiti on walls, some of which are still there. Choosing a place to spray graffiti is not easy, he had to think about how he was going to affect the space in front of him. A building, a parking lot, an alley, a wall - all these are diverse spaces that affect people. And so, through the buildings, Wonda became interested in architecture. While studying at Bezalel, he learned a lot about plastic arts, compositions and the human experience in the world. But that was not enough, he also wanted to show the human conflicts. To tell a human story in a visual way, so he turned to cinema. He is mainly influenced by the films of Bela Tarr and Vittorio De Sica, the aesthetic of the image and the observing long shots. Through them he reflects the beauty in simplicity, the infinite grind of life. That's where personal conflicts take on more weight, and that's where cinema really becomes art.
Country: Israel
T-Port Partner: Sapir College – School of Audio and Visual Arts
While studying at Sapir Eliyahu Wonda screened 3 short films: Hunger, The Twigs and Winter Number 3, in addition to an exercise in a photography course, going down ?, which was later screened in lectures against violence and sexual assault. In his first year, he submitted a screenplay for the ImproAction 10 competition, and he was selected to shoot and screen the film at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. He has participated in productions of friends in various roles and worked in professional productions during his studies. He is currently working on his final film, Solomon and Solomon go fishing, he won funding from the Gesher Foundation and second place in the pitching competition for student films of the Haifa Festival.
In a last effort to connect with his son, Solomon takes Junior on a fishing...
