A moving, comic melodrama, The Man Without a World is a modern-day silent film set in a typical shtetl (village) in Poland and is accompanied by an original live score composed by world-renowned klezmer fiddler Alicia Svigals and silent film music legend and pianist Donald Sosin

Credited to the legendary (and imaginary) 1920’s Soviet director Nevgeny Antinov, the film is anything but old. In fact, Antinov himself is the creation of contemporary filmmaker Eleanor Antin, a world-renowned artist, author, and performer. 

“I want my audience to experience this world as if from the inside—but at the same time—with a sense of the distance they have traveled to get there.” – Eleanor Antin

Alicia Svigals, violinist/composer and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, is the world’s foremost klezmer fiddler. Alicia almost singlehandedly revived the tradition of klezmer fiddling, which had been on the brink of extinction until she recorded her debut album Fidl in the 1990s. In May 2023, Svigals was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by the Jewish Theological Seminary  for “extraordinary contributions to the arts and Jewish life.”

Donald Sosin has performed his silent film music at Lincoln Center, MoMA, the Kennedy Center, the New York Jewish Film Festival, and major film festivals in the US and abroad, including the Denver Silent Film Festival where he was recognized with a lifetime achievement award. Other Jewish music includes a short children’s opera, A Parakeet Named Dreidel, Yiddish folk song arrangements, and Three Psalms, which the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra premiered in 2009.

Tickets are $20 and may be purchased HERE or at the door.