"The Last Happy Day"
Location:
5811 South Ellis Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Note:
Introduction by Professor Michele Lowrie, Classics Department
Contact Name:
Sabrina Craig
Contact E-mail:
scraig1@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone:
773-213-8464
Description:
New York filmmaker Lynne Sachs presents The Last Happy Day, an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and Sachs' distant cousin. In 1938 Lenard, a writer with a Jewish background, fled the Nazis to a safe haven in Rome. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service hired Lenard to reconstruct the bonesâ" small and large â" of dead American soldiers. Eventually he found himself in remotest Brazil where he embarked on the translation of Winnie the Pooh into Latin. Sachs' essay film uses personal letters, abstracted war imagery, home movies, interviews, and a children's performance to create an intimate meditation on the destructive power of war.
In conversation with Classics Professor Michèle Lowrie (who acted as an adviser on the film), Sachs will discuss her cinematic process for making this portrait of a doctor who saw the worst of society and ran. From Lucretiusâ sublime but wise âOn the Nature of the Universeâ to Euripidesâ lurid Bacchae to Michael Ondaattjeâs harrowing vision of Billy the Kid, Sachs will review the range of literature that fed her creative process. In the same spirit of experimentation, she will screen her companion piece, Cosmetic Surgery for Corpses (10 min., 2010) which witnesses a group of Latin scholars confronted with the haunting yet whimsical task of translating a newspaper article on Iraqi burial rituals into Latin.
5811 South Ellis Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Note:
Introduction by Professor Michele Lowrie, Classics Department
Contact Name:
Sabrina Craig
Contact E-mail:
scraig1@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone:
773-213-8464
Description:
New York filmmaker Lynne Sachs presents The Last Happy Day, an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and Sachs' distant cousin. In 1938 Lenard, a writer with a Jewish background, fled the Nazis to a safe haven in Rome. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service hired Lenard to reconstruct the bonesâ" small and large â" of dead American soldiers. Eventually he found himself in remotest Brazil where he embarked on the translation of Winnie the Pooh into Latin. Sachs' essay film uses personal letters, abstracted war imagery, home movies, interviews, and a children's performance to create an intimate meditation on the destructive power of war.
In conversation with Classics Professor Michèle Lowrie (who acted as an adviser on the film), Sachs will discuss her cinematic process for making this portrait of a doctor who saw the worst of society and ran. From Lucretiusâ sublime but wise âOn the Nature of the Universeâ to Euripidesâ lurid Bacchae to Michael Ondaattjeâs harrowing vision of Billy the Kid, Sachs will review the range of literature that fed her creative process. In the same spirit of experimentation, she will screen her companion piece, Cosmetic Surgery for Corpses (10 min., 2010) which witnesses a group of Latin scholars confronted with the haunting yet whimsical task of translating a newspaper article on Iraqi burial rituals into Latin.
Starts
3/13/2010 @ 7:00
Ends
3/13/2010
Location
The Division of the Humanities
1115 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Location:
5811 South Ellis Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Note:
Introduction by Professor Michele Lowrie, Classics Department
Contact Name:
Sabrina Craig
Contact E-mail:
scraig1@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone:
773-213-8464
Description:
New York filmmaker Lynne Sachs presents The Last Happy Day, an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and Sachs' distant cousin. In 1938 Lenard, a writer with a Jewish background, fled the Nazis to a safe haven in Rome. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service hired Lenard to reconstruct the bonesâ" small and large â" of dead American soldiers. Eventually he found himself in remotest Brazil where he embarked on the translation of Winnie the Pooh into Latin. Sachs' essay film uses personal letters, abstracted war imagery, home movies, interviews, and a children's performance to create an intimate meditation on the destructive power of war.
In conversation with Classics Professor Michèle Lowrie (who acted as an adviser on the film), Sachs will discuss her cinematic process for making this portrait of a doctor who saw the worst of society and ran. From Lucretiusâ sublime but wise âOn the Nature of the Universeâ to Euripidesâ lurid Bacchae to Michael Ondaattjeâs harrowing vision of Billy the Kid, Sachs will review the range of literature that fed her creative process. In the same spirit of experimentation, she will screen her companion piece, Cosmetic Surgery for Corpses (10 min., 2010) which witnesses a group of Latin scholars confronted with the haunting yet whimsical task of translating a newspaper article on Iraqi burial rituals into Latin.
1115 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Location:
5811 South Ellis Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Note:
Introduction by Professor Michele Lowrie, Classics Department
Contact Name:
Sabrina Craig
Contact E-mail:
scraig1@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone:
773-213-8464
Description:
New York filmmaker Lynne Sachs presents The Last Happy Day, an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and Sachs' distant cousin. In 1938 Lenard, a writer with a Jewish background, fled the Nazis to a safe haven in Rome. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service hired Lenard to reconstruct the bonesâ" small and large â" of dead American soldiers. Eventually he found himself in remotest Brazil where he embarked on the translation of Winnie the Pooh into Latin. Sachs' essay film uses personal letters, abstracted war imagery, home movies, interviews, and a children's performance to create an intimate meditation on the destructive power of war.
In conversation with Classics Professor Michèle Lowrie (who acted as an adviser on the film), Sachs will discuss her cinematic process for making this portrait of a doctor who saw the worst of society and ran. From Lucretiusâ sublime but wise âOn the Nature of the Universeâ to Euripidesâ lurid Bacchae to Michael Ondaattjeâs harrowing vision of Billy the Kid, Sachs will review the range of literature that fed her creative process. In the same spirit of experimentation, she will screen her companion piece, Cosmetic Surgery for Corpses (10 min., 2010) which witnesses a group of Latin scholars confronted with the haunting yet whimsical task of translating a newspaper article on Iraqi burial rituals into Latin.
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