Nurith Aviv was born in Tel Aviv in 1945. Currently based in Paris. She is a French-Israeli Direcor, Cinematographer and Producer. Her first work as a Cinematographer was for the Israeli cult Shablul (1970). She moved to France afterwards and became the first woman in France to be officially recognized by the CNC as a Director of Photography. As such, she has worked with a wide range of directors including Agnès Varda (Daguerreotypes, 1975) and Réné Allio (Moi Pierre Rivière ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère, 1976) , and Amos Gitai (Field Diary, 1982) and A House in Jerusalem(1998). Aviv has directed fourteen documentary films, and the topic of language is central to her personal and cinematographic exploration.