New Perspectives Film Series: Lost Bohemia, with Director Josef Astor

A little known world of Carnegie Hall and its illustrious artists is discovered in Lost in Bohemia, by Josef Birdman Astor.  A tenant in one of the 160 studios on top of Carnegie Hall, Astor captured his artist neighbors, a rapidly vanishing world from 1985. Astor's film follows the protracted battle by the tenants to preserve their community and the rich heritage of the studios. The studios' significance to 20th Century culture cannot be overstated, as generations of legendary performers and artists lived and worked in them including Isadora Duncan, Marlon Brando, Barnett Newman, Agnes deMille, Marilyn Monroe, Leonard Bernstein, Ruth Gordon, Mark Twain, Martha Graham, Paddy Chayefsky, Robert Redford and Lee Strasberg.

Director Josef Birdman Astor will join Megan Smith-Harris for a discussion following the film.   Refreshments will be served and a donation of $5 per person is suggested. The New Perspectives Documentary series is programmed and moderated by filmmaker, Megan Smith-Harris. Registration is highly recommended.