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Short Documentary- “Si Lewen- A Journey”- 72 sequential original drawings by artist Si Lewen. Introduction/Documentary and Presentation with original score by Si Lewen’s grandson; composer/musician Damon Kardon. Introduction written by Thomas Yoseloff. Narrated by Erin Kardon. Documentary produced and edited by Damon Kardon.
Artist Si Lewen (1918-2016) was an internationally known artist who put his indelible imprint on 20th century art and the Modern Art Movement in America. An immigrant, escaping from Nazi Germany, only to return to fight as a “Ritchie Boy” with the US Army in World War II, he witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust when liberating the Buchenwold Concentration Camp.
He is regarded by Art Spiegelman (“Maus”) to be one of the grandfathers of the graphic novel as an art form. Si has had two graphic books published- “The Parade” and “A Journey”, both depicting the cyclic nature and brutality of war and of the holocaust. This short documentary speaks to his journey as a young immigrant, soldier, and artist and the images in sequence from “A Journey” are set to a music score (written and performed by his grandson Damon Kardon) for the first time. Albert Einstein once wrote of Si Lewen’s art “Our time needs you and your work”.
Directed by Damon Kardon (USA)