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Dear Lucy - Another side trip from Flow City - talking to "my" community, now doesn't want to hear. I'm so happy you're back in town NY is not the same when you're absent. Love Mierle Wednesday, June 1 at 7 pm THE SEPHARDIC EXPERIENCE: NORTH AFRICAN JEWRY PILLAR OF SALT (1980; 57 min.) MOROCCAN JEWRY—1978 (1978; 59 min.) Discussion: Haim Shiran, director Pillar of Salt, a moving drama depicting the coming of age of a young boy living in the Jewish Quarter of Tunis, is based on Albert Memmi's book. This film was made in Israel and Tunisia. Moroccan Jewry—1978 follows Shiran on his return to his homeland and travels to Meknes, Casablanca, Fez, Tetuan and Marrakesh, capturing the remnants of Moroccan Jewish life and culture. [[Image]] Pillar of Salt, 1980 Wednesday, June 8 at 7 pm FAMILY PORTRAITS THE FAMILY ALBUM (1986; 60 min.) t AND THE SMALL PICTURE FRAME (1986; 12 min.) OUR TIME IN THE GARDEN (1981; 15 min.) BASHERT (fated) (1973; 14 min.) Discussion: Alan Berliner, The Family Album Ron Blau, Our Time in the Garden Brian Kellman, Bashert Phil Weisman, t and the Small Picture Frame Artfully manipulated home movies evoke Jewish family life in America (The Family Album and t and the Small Picture Frame) and in 1930s Nazi Germany (Our Time in the Garden). Bashert moves backwards in time as it asks the viewer, "If we lived in a world where time moved backward, would we value more fully each coming day?" Wednesday, June 15 at 7 pm THE KLEZMER REVIVAL A JUMPIN' NIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN (1988; 80 min.) Discussion: Michal Goldman, director A musical documentary celebrating the current Klezmer music revival. Young American musicians in Kapelye and the Klezmer Conservatory Band perform this rich folk music as traditionally presented at weddings and other celebrations by itinerant Eastern European Jewish musicians. [[Image]] A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden, 1988 Tuesday, June 21 at 7 pm POLITICAL ACTIVISM THE CONSPIRACY AND THE DYBBUK (1970; 25 min.) END OF INNOCENCE: JUNE 19, 1953 (1981; 20 min.) FOUR QUESTIONS (1988; 12 min.) Discussion: Myriam Abramowicz, Helene Aylon and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Four Questions Richard Brick, The Conspiracy and the Dybbuk Stephen Stept, End of Innocence: June 19, 1953 Jewish political activism of the 1970s and 1980s is recalled in three documentaries. The Conspiracy and the Dybbuk describes the Radical Jewish Union's religious exorcism of the dybbuk in Federal Judge Julius Hoffman, trial judge of the 'Chicago 8.' Scenes of the exorcism ceremony are intercut with footage of rallies and speeches featuring Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, William Kunstler and Jean Genet. End of Innocence: June 19, 1953 is a fictional study of the Rosenberg trial's impact on a young Jewish boy and his community. Four Questions is an avant-garde experiential video theater piece in which artists Aylon and Ukeles ask four (hitherto unspoken) questions on and off the screen, in performance and video combination. Audience participation will be reflected on two additional monitors. [[Image]] Pillar of Salt, 1980 [[Image]] The Family Album, 1986 [[Image]] Bashert, 1973 ORDER FORM Please note that seating is limited; it is recommended that tickets be purchased as far in advance as possible. Programs are subject to change. Only a small percentage of the cost of these programs is reflected in ticket prices. Please help the museum by including a donation as a tax-deductible gift. Please enclose a check or money order payable to: The Jewish Museum for programs you wish to attend. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Education Department The Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128 For further information, please call: 212 860 1863. Name Address Daytime phone number Are you a member? [[3 Columned Table]] |PROGRAM|NUMBER OF TICKETS| | |---|---|---| | |$5 per film program|TOTAL| |June 1| | | |June 8| | | |June 15| | | |June 21| | | |June 22| | | |June 28| | | |June 29| | | |SERIES SUBSCRIPTION| | | |---|---|---| |7 film programs|$25 per series| | | | | | | |Tax-deductible contribution|$| | |Total|$| [[Image]] Tear on the Cheek of the World, 1987 [[Image]] Artist Jack Levine at work in a scene from David Sutherland's Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason Wednesday, June 22 at 7 pm MAKING ART JACK LEVINE: FEAST OF PURE REASON (1986; 58 min.) ALBERT ALCALAY: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST (1985; 22 min.) Discussion: David Sutherland, Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason Bruce Stone, Albert Alcalay: Portrait of an Artist Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason is a bold and unconventional film portrait showing America's foremost Social Realist painter skewering corrupt politicians, raging over social injustices, and satirizing the petty foibles of humankind. This award-winning film allows us to watch Levine create a portrait of his daughter. Albert Alcalay: Portrait of an Artist portrays the Yugoslavian Jewish Holocaust survivor and artist who has taught painting at Harvard University for 26 years. Alcalay's candid reminiscences enliven scenes of the artist at home and in the studio. [[Image]] A Berlin Lost, 1984. Photo by Richard Kostelanetz. Tuesday, June 28 at 7 pm SPIRITUAL QUESTS THE GREAT SADNESS OF ZOHARA (1984; 40 min.) TEAR ON THE CHEEK OF THE WORLD (1987; 28 min.) EMUNAH (1972-3; 18 min.) THE SACRED LETTERS (1984; 20 min.) Discussion: Nina Menkes, The Great Sadness of Zohara Dov Lederberg, The Sacred Letters This program presents four haunting evocations of personal quests for spirituality: a young Jewish woman's odyssey to Jerusalem and Morocco (The Great Sadness of Zohara); an American student in Israel who traces the life and poetry of pioneer-poet Rachel (Tear on the Cheek of the World); a woman's return to the Jewish faith, with sound track by poet Allen Ginsburg (Emunah); and a video meditation on the secrets of the Hebrew alphabet as inspired by the teachings of the Kabbalah and Hasidism (The Sacred Letters). Wednesday, June 29 at 7 pm MEMORIES AMONG SACRED STONES (1973; 7 min.) HALF-SISTER (1985; 33 min.) A BERLIN LOST (1984; 22 min.; English and German versions of the film will be screened) MNEMONIC STUDIES: ELLIS ISLAND (1985; 20 min.) Discussion: Richard Kostelanetz, A Berlin Lost Joel Katz, Mnemonic Studies: Ellis Island Abraham Ravett, Half-Sister Sol Rubin, Among Sacred Stones Memories are evoked through film and video works: Kostelanetz's loving tribute to Berlin's lost past, as symbolized by the Weissensee cemetery and remembered by former Jewish residents of Berlin; Rubin's elegy to those who fell in Israel's Yom Kippur War; Ravett's commemoration of his half-sister, killed during the Holocaust; and Katz's haunting homage to Ellis Island. Tickets: $5 per film program; $25 per series subscription (7 film programs) These programs have been made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts. You're on the guest list. Hope you can make it.
