Event Details
North American Premiere! The landmark exhibition “Photography in the USA,” which brought Nathan Farb to Siberia for the first time in 1977, served as a powerful harbinger of the waning Cold War era; it not only marked Nathan’s first photobook success, but also secured his rightful place in the photography collections of MOMA and the Getty.
Following Nathan as he embarks on another expedition to rediscover and capture the essence of the protagonists of ’77 just before Russia invades Ukraine, the film captures a poignant snapshot of a Russian society on the brink of war.
At the same time, the photographer’s own personality materializes in the film – a compelling portrait shaped by his encounters amidst the bustling milieu of New York or the freezing backdrop of Novosibirsk, and against the nature’s grandeur of the Adirondack Mountains.
Post screening discussion with Director, Nathaniel Knop, and Photographer/Subject of the Film, Nathan Farb!
Guests
Nathaniel Knop- Director
Born in 1968 to a Jewish-Chinese family in Czernowitz, Ukraine, Nathaniel studied psychiatry with Postgraduate studies in film direction. Assistant director to A. Kaidanovsky and K. Zanussi, Nathaniel came to Berlin as a Nipkow fellow (European scholarship for professionals in audiovisual media) and founded his film production company KINOBRIGADA in 1999. He has worked for the TV channels 3SAT and ARTE, for museums. He lives in Frankfurt am Main with his wife and 5 children.
Films (selected):
2023: In der Luft, da bleibt deine Wurzel (With Mario Morales)
2023: Das Kino Sind Wir (With Livia Teuer, Hessian Film Prize)
2019: The Watson’s Hotel (Audience Award, Lichter IFF)
2016: The Storyteller. After Walter Benjamin (Winner, On Art IFF; Best Doc 12IFF)
2001: Das Nitschewoland (Audience Award, Leipzig IFF)
Nathan Farb, Photographer & Artist
Nathan Farb burst onto the New York cultural scene at Joe Papp’s Public Theater with his seven projector multi-media piece, Lockport in 1971. It was followed by his 1977 trip to Novosibirsk, Siberia, resulting in the book, The Russians which was published in Germany, France, Italy, Holland and the US.
Nathan returned to the Adirondacks where he did three books on the Adirondacks and one on the Galapagos Islands, all published by Rizzoli.
Nathan has had many one person shows and his work is in the MoMA and the J Paul Getty Museum and many private and corporate collections.
Nathan grew up in Lake Placid and has lived in Jay, NY for the past 40 years. He has two daughters, Ruth Sergel and Esme Farb. To see more about Farb and his work, go to https://linktr.ee/nathan_farb
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