Maarvon (in Hebrew: מערבון) is a film supplement to Maayan edited by Joshua Simon.
The cover of the 1st issue was The World, film by Chinese director Jia Zhangke. That article also revealed a letter correspondent by former student of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Nimrod Kamer, giving an insight of routine inside the highly rated and closed school. The cover story of the 2nd issue was a shot from the 1971 marginalised film Punishment Park by Peter Watkins that followed an article by Amy Taubin on the film. Other articles were on the unique genre of Hotel Cinema - Israeli comedic films shot in the 70's in hotel rooms and lobbies by Yoni Raz Portugali, an article on Avi Mograbi's representation of suffering Palestinians in his self-representing works by Shmulik Duvdevani, and also Ramle one-held-hand made films by high school students by Nimrod Kamer and all toghther 20 articles. Maarvon and Maayan faces the middle east reality with several articles. In Maarvon #2 there a translation of an article on the Lebanese film "Bosta" - a precedent in feature films in the region made by local money rather than western.
Issue #1 of Maarvon dealt with Mon Tresor of Keren Yedaya, Jaffa in Menahem Golan movies, the Israeli gay cinema between Amos Guttman and Eytan Fox, after Good Boys (Yair Hochner), political telenovelas in Latin America, and Jia Zhangke movies.
Maarvon in Hebrew means western. A quote from its first issue opening statement:"for us films are not only themselves, but the entire discourse and culture that surrounds them."
The first article in Maarvon vol.1 is called "A Certain Tendency in Israeli Cinema" by Joshua Simon, he examines Israeli cinema and the Aesthetics of feature films sponsored by film funds, a growing European and International trend of Peripheral Mainstream.
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