The Man Without a World
This program is presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Ross Lipman and The Archival Impermanence Project. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
In-person: film preservationist and author Ross Lipman, actor Christine Berry, violinist Alicia Svigals, pianist Donald Sosin.
Los Angeles restoration premiere!
Through the persona of a censored, persecuted Soviet-era filmmaker, Yevgeny Antinov, writer-director Eleanor Antin constructs a captivating silent film portrait of Jewish shtetl life in 1920s Poland. Evocative of Guy Maddin, Antin remediates and repurposes period melodrama suffusing Jewish communal life before the Holocaust with mysticism, politics and homespun wisdom swirling in a pot of love, jealousy and murder. Presented with live original music composed and performed by world-renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin, The Man Without a World was largely overlooked on its 1991 initial release but, restored in 2020, it is, as Ross Lipman writes, “ripe to at last be truly discovered.”
DCP, b&w, silent with live musical accompaniment, 98 min. Director/Screenwriter: Eleanor Antin. With: Pier Marton, Christine Berry, Anna Henriques.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a division of UCLA Library, and presents its public programs in the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer, among other venues. For more information about the Archive, visit cinema.ucla.edu.
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