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Contemporary Jewish Museum
February 26 - March 24, 2015Info
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http://thecjm.org/
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(415) 655-7800
Kolbuszowa, video. Courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York.
Budapest-based filmmaker and video-artist Péter Forgács, along with the New York City-based band The Klezmatics, revisit amateur movies made by Jewish immigrants from the US who visited their hometowns in Poland during the 1920–30s. Several decades later, Forgács rewrites these “visual postcards” of poignant family reunions and everyday life in small towns as an immersive video art installation that brings to life a lost world in startling and moving detail.
Commissioned by the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York.