Dance
Helene Klodawsky, Film Director (Canada) and
Sabine Rollberg, Expert of Documentary Film (Germany) discuss
“Undying Love.” Stories of Romance, Marriage and Rebirth in Displaced Persons’ Camps
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1014 5th Avenue, New York, New York, NY, United States
This exclusive program features two award winners: Helene Klodawsky, Independent Filmmaker, Writer and Director of "Undying Love", Montreal (Canada) in conversation with Sabine Rollberg, Professor of Artistic Television Formats, Film and Television, Freiburg (Germany) Moderated by Rachel Stern, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society, New York (USA) Undying Love tells the poignant, enduring, and miraculous love stories of the survivors of World War II. Against the brutalized landscape of post-war Europe, this film focuses on how survivors struggled to reconstruct personal identities and forge intimate relationships. Using searing testimonies, poetic dramatizations, archives and images of romantic love from the pre- and post-Holocaust era, Undying Love is a textured retelling of several extraordinary love stories which emerged “out [...]
Art for the Millions:
American Culture and Politics in the 1930s
Lecture by Allison Rudnick, New York
ONLINE
VA, United States
The 1930s was a decade of political and social upheaval in the United States, and the art and visual culture of the time reflected the unsettled environment. Americans searched for their cultural identity during the Great Depression, a period marked by divisive politics, threats to democracy, and intensified social activism, including a powerful labor movement. The exhibition with the same title, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York until December 10, 2023, features more than 100 works from the collection and several lenders, and explores how artists expressed political messages and ideologies through a range of media, from paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs to film, dance, decorative arts, fashion, and ephemera. Highlights include paintings by Georgia [...]
