When:
Friday, May 11, 2012
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM CT
Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, 40 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public
Cost: Students $4.00; General public $6.00; Block members, University faculty/staff $4.00; Seniors, 65 and older $4.00
Contact:
Block Cinema Office
(847) 491-4000
Group: Block Cinema
Category: Fine Arts
(Joseph Astor, 2011, USA, Video, 73 min.)
Lost Bohemia is a moving portrait of an eclectic and vibrant group of artists and performers who live and work in beautiful rent-controlled studios above Carnegie Hall, historic studios that have housed artists (including the likes of Isadora Duncan and Marlon Brando) for over a century. When the tenants, some who have been there for over 50 years, begin receiving eviction notices, they learn of a plan to demolish the historic interiors of the studios and turn them into generic office spaces. Josef “Birdman” Astor, a tenant, provides an intimate first-person account of the residents and their struggle to save their homes and their unique artistic community before it becomes another casualty of the prime real estate market in Manhattan.