Blimi
Filmmaker and professor Pearl Gluck’s provocative latest dramatic short film centers on Malke, a Holocaust survivor and sex-ed teacher who has been leading a secret life for decades: performing slam poetry on the Lower East Side. Castles in the Sky features commanding performances from actor Lynn Cohen, who died in 2020, and poet Venus Thrash, who died in 2021.
Underwater Ritual Bathers
Filmmaker and professor Pearl Gluck’s provocative latest dramatic short film centers on Malke, a Holocaust survivor and sex-ed teacher who has been leading a secret life for decades: performing slam poetry on the Lower East Side. Castles in the Sky features commanding performances from actor Lynn Cohen, who died in 2020, and poet Venus Thrash, who died in 2021.
Writer
Filmmaker and professor Pearl Gluck’s provocative latest dramatic short film centers on Malke, a Holocaust survivor and sex-ed teacher who has been leading a secret life for decades: performing slam poetry on the Lower East Side. Castles in the Sky features commanding performances from actor Lynn Cohen, who died in 2020, and poet Venus Thrash, who died in 2021.
Stephanie
After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of one painful night, Efrayim Eisenstein will come to realize that it’s much easier to shave your beard than to shed who you are.
Sura
A magical realist comedy about Mortality, Mysticism and the metaphysics of facial hair in Hasidic Brooklyn
Associate Producer
비질은 '철야 기도'를 뜻하기도 하는데, 주인공 야코브는 예전에 유대인 종교모임을 일컫는 하시딤의 일원이었으나, 지금은 신앙이 사라진 사람. 그러다가 어쩔 수 없이 쇼머(유대인 전통으로 어느 한 사람이 죽는 순간에서 매장될 때까지 지키는 것)를 하게 되면서 겪게 되는 공포를 그리고 있다
Sarah
비질은 '철야 기도'를 뜻하기도 하는데, 주인공 야코브는 예전에 유대인 종교모임을 일컫는 하시딤의 일원이었으나, 지금은 신앙이 사라진 사람. 그러다가 어쩔 수 없이 쇼머(유대인 전통으로 어느 한 사람이 죽는 순간에서 매장될 때까지 지키는 것)를 하게 되면서 겪게 되는 공포를 그리고 있다
