Three musicians perform a specially created new score live to an old silent movie.

Lemez Lovas (Oi Va Voi) leads Moshikop and Rohan Kriwaczek in a musical exploration of 1923 Yiddish film East and West, taking us from traditional klezmer to contemporary electronica, from vaudeville to breakbeat.

In East and West, directed by Goldin and Abramson, New York flapper Mollie (Molly Picon) travels to her shy and demure cousin's wedding in a Polish shtetl. Whilst keeping the villagers entertained by her boisterous antics, Mollie also catches the eye of a dashing young yeshiva scholar (Jacob Kalish). As love blossom between East and West, traditional and modern worlds collide.

article posted by:Barbara Emsani, YaD Arts

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