Keren Bergman is a filmmaker, cinematographer, and film researcher from Tel Aviv, currently working between Tel Aviv and Amsterdam. She graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in 2012. Her short films include Shir in the Water (Haifa International Film Festival, 2012), which received the School’s Outstanding Graduate Award and screened at the Wiesbaden International Film Festival, and Like Home, which premiered at the Tel Aviv International Film Festival in 2017.

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Her work moves between fiction, documentary, and video installation, forming a hybrid practice that examines personal autonomy and societal standards of normality. Notable works include Under Their Custody (multi-channel video installation, 2019), which re-enacts legal transcripts concerning guardianship.

 

Alongside her artistic practice, Bergman has worked as a senior archival researcher on numerous documentary films. She received the award for Best Research for her work on Speer Goes to Hollywood (dir. Vanessa Lapa, 2021).

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She is currently developing the feature-length documentary Distributions, which follows the geographical and emotional journey between three siblings in a family on the autism spectrum. Her cinematography work on the short film Arava (dir. Sara Benjamin) premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2023.

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Her recent work marks a significant shift toward practices of witnessing and testimony. In the ongoing expanded cinema project The Pit – A Witness’s Tale, Bergman works with legal transcripts, fragmented archives, and site-specific memory, moving away from authorial narration toward an engagement with unprocessed histories and the memory of place.