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Mendelson's Incessant Visions plus Q&A with director Duki Dror

Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 3:30 am to 5:30 am

Documentary "Mendelsohn's Incessant Visions"

 

Screening and Q&A with director Duki Dror, Israeli filmmaker and Schusterman Visiting Artist at UCSC

When: Monday, February 25, 2013
Time: 7:30-9:30PM
Location: UCSC Media Theater

Free and Open to the Public - Seating is first come, first served - Parking available at Performing Arts Lot $4

Presented by Arts Division and Film and Digital Media
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Arts Dean's Arts Excellence Fund, Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival, History of Art and Visual Culture, and Art Department.  

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Synopsis: This film is a cinematic mediation about the untold story of Erich Mendelsohn,  whose life and career were as enigmatic and tragic as the path of the century. He drew sketches on tiny pieces of paper and sent them from the trenches to a young cellist, who was waiting for him in Berlin.  She thought he was a genius and after WW1, she helped him become the busiest architect in Germany.  When she planned to leave him for a communist poet, he built a perfect house for her, entirely planned by him from the lakeview living room, to the silverware and her evening-gowns.  When the Nazis came to power, they abandoned the house and left Germany forever.  Erich and Louise Mendelsohn have wandered between continents, between world wars, between success and failure.  The buildings that Erich built around the world, scattered as a trail of their journey, have changed the history of architecture.  

 Award-winning filmmaker and current Schusterman Visiting Artist, Duki Dror (The Journey of Vaan Nguyen, Raging Dove) has created a spectacular interpretation based on Erich and Louise's relationship, for one of the most captivating chapters in the development of modern art.  

When:  February 25, 2013Location:  Media Theater (M110)