| TD-264650-19 | Public Programs: Media Projects Development | Katahdin Productions | All This Life: The Many Worlds of Roman Vishniac | 4/1/2019 - 8/31/2019 | $75,000.00 | Laura | | Bialis | | | | Katahdin Productions | Los Angeles | CA | 90036-3251 | USA | 2019 | Art History and Criticism | Media Projects Development | Public Programs | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | Development
of a film script exploring the life and work of American photographer Roman
Vishniac (1897–1990) in Eastern European Jewish communities.
From the cosmopolitan streets of prewar Berlin to the shtetls in Poland to the Princeton offices of Albert Einstein, All This Life takes viewers on a journey, through the lens of one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century. Roman Vishniac is best known for having traversed Eastern Europe from 1935-38, on assignment to photograph Jewish life. A few years later these communities would be destroyed, and Vishniac’s work would provide the last visual records of an entire world, becoming iconic images in Jewish collective memory. Vishniac owes his fame to this specific collection, but his prolific – and mostly unpublished – body of work depicts an entire era of Jewish history in Europe and the US. No less important than his work as an artist, Vishniac was an avid scientist, and made major contributions in the field of microscopic photography. All This Life will illuminate Vishniac’s career and stunning photographs, and detail his dramatic life story and flamboyant personality. |
| TR-269652-20 | Public Programs: Media Projects Production | Katahdin Productions | Vishniac | 5/1/2020 - 11/30/2022 | $396,940.00 | Laura | | Bialis | | | | Katahdin Productions | Los Angeles | CA | 90036-3251 | USA | 2020 | Art History and Criticism | Media Projects Production | Public Programs | 396940 | 0 | 396940 | 0 | Production of a feature-length documentary about the photographer Roman
Vishniac (1897–1990).
Vishniac will explore Roman Vishniac’s career and photographs and detail his dramatic life story. Made with the full cooperation of Vishniac’s daughter, Mara Vishniac Kohn, and with access to the Vishniac archive of more than 10,000 images, the documentary will delve into the complex person and story behind the photos. It will address controversies surrounding Vishniac, including recent debates about the authenticity of some of his photographs. It will reveal the ruptures in the family because of his flamboyant, often difficult personality. Finally, the film will frame Vishniac’s legacy as a key modernist photographer and preserver of memory. Vishniac’s collection is vast, unexpected, and causes us to step back in time. Through his iconic images, the film will expose new audiences to a lost world that is quickly fading from our grasp. |