VISHNIAC
Wednesday, March 20, 7pm
Aspen Film Isis Theatre | 406 E Hopkins Ave, Aspen
$36 General Admission | $29 Aspen Film Member
$72 Reception + Screening
5 PM Reception
About the Film
Documentary | 95 MIN | US
Roman Vishniac is best known for having traversed Eastern Europe from 1935 through 1938, on assignment to photograph Jewish life. Less than a decade later these communities would be wiped out and Vishniac’s iconic photographs would provide the last visual records of an entire world.Through his photographs, we see Jewish life – in Eastern European shtetls and in Weimar-era Berlin – and witness the Nazi rise to power. After the war, his documentation continued with photographs of Berlin in ruins and Jewish children in Displaced Persons camps.Vishniac was also a respected scientist who made considerable contributions in the field of microscopic photography. His “Living Biology” series, funded by the National Science Foundation, were some of the first films depicting life through a microscope and became a staple in the 1960s and 1970s in classrooms across the United States. His pioneering microscopy transformed the nature of science photography.
VISHNIAC delves into the person and story behind the photos as it frames Vishniac’s legacy as a key modernist photographer and preserver of memory.
Director |
Laura Bialis |
Writer |
Sophie Sartain |
Producers |
Laura Bialis | Roberta Grossman |
VISHNIAC – Review by Justina Walford
Justina Walford
Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2023
Event Details
Aspen Film partners with JOIN Israel to present the inspiring VISHNIAC, a documentary that introduces new audiences to a lost world of images.
The evening will begin with a cocktail reception at Galerie Maximilian at 5 PM, followed by a conversation about the film, hosted by Aspen Film’s Executive + Artistic Director Susan Wrubel with guest Beth Kean, CEO of the Holocaust Museum LA. We will conclude with the feature presentation at the Aspen Film Isis Theatre.
To attend the reception, please purchase the reception + screening option.
BETH KEAN
CEO, Holocaust Museum LA
The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Holocaust Museum LA’s Chief Executive Officer Beth Kean joined the museum Board of Trustees in 2004, served as the Museum’s Board treasurer from 2006-2016 and as Board Chair before becoming interim CEO in 2016. She was appointed permanent CEO in March 2017. In 2010 as Treasurer, she was part of the team guiding the Museum’s transition from a small space on Wilshire Boulevard to its current award-winning campus in Pan Pacific Park. Now, as CEO, Beth is spearheading the Museum’s campus expansion, “Building Truth” which will double the footprint, creating more space for exhibits, classrooms and public programs.
Prior to joining the Museum, Beth has over 25 years of experience working in the finance sector, focusing on fixed-income and social-impact finance. She worked at Capital Group Companies in Los Angeles and Salomon Brothers in New York, serves on the University of Pennsylvania’s Southern California Regional Advisory Board and Trustees’ Council for Penn Women, JCC Krakow Board of Directors, and is a member of the Women Presidents’ Organization’s West LA Chapter.
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