Film Screening - Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist
Join us for a screening of "Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist" - a painted story wherein a rabbi candidly shares the unspoken secrets of his trade.
Date: Wed. June 9, 2010
Time: 7:30pm
Time: 7:30pm
Location: A home in Queen Anne (please contact us for address)
Ilana says: This film took Sarah Jane 10 years to make! It's been at the Seattle International Film Festival, and South by Southwest!
Rachel says: This is a really interesting hand-drawn animated film by Kavana's own Sarah Jane Lapp. It's been shown at a bunch of great film festivals, and we're fortunate to have her here to speak about the film and answer our questions.
Someone else says: The film follows a prospective pro-eulogist as he learns the secrets of the trade, its ordained responsibilities and economic angles. He wonders about the creation of communal memory, while Seattle-based Lapp's fanciful, maneuvering animation combines with jazz musician Mark Dresser's melancholy and musing score. The relatively short film covers much ground, with a narrator who constantly considers memory and life, duty, death, and phenomenal love.
Someone else says: The film follows a prospective pro-eulogist as he learns the secrets of the trade, its ordained responsibilities and economic angles. He wonders about the creation of communal memory, while Seattle-based Lapp's fanciful, maneuvering animation combines with jazz musician Mark Dresser's melancholy and musing score. The relatively short film covers much ground, with a narrator who constantly considers memory and life, duty, death, and phenomenal love.
Here are some paintings/stills from the film.
