A debut of restless curiosity, The Klezmer Project unfolds as a docu-fiction rendered by Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann. He, a wedding videographer whose camera is more at home among smiles than solemnity, spins a tale to win the affection of a klezmer clarinetist. She, the magnetic source of his bluff, leads him from Buenos Aires into the winding backroads of Bessarabia. There, amid villages straddling Ukraine, Romania and Moldova, they chase the ghost of a music whose roots run deep in Yiddish memory.
This film wears many faces—part field diary of ethnomusicology, part invented romance, part whispered parable spoken in Yiddish voice-over. A playful murmur guides audiences through dusty archives and candlelit kitchens, even as darker questions hum beneath the melodies. Playful notes drift into solemn reflection when klezmer’s absence becomes evidence of history’s violent erasures.
Cameras record flutes and fiddles coaxed from weathered hands. Scholars...
This film wears many faces—part field diary of ethnomusicology, part invented romance, part whispered parable spoken in Yiddish voice-over. A playful murmur guides audiences through dusty archives and candlelit kitchens, even as darker questions hum beneath the melodies. Playful notes drift into solemn reflection when klezmer’s absence becomes evidence of history’s violent erasures.
Cameras record flutes and fiddles coaxed from weathered hands. Scholars...
- 4/29/2025
- by Naser Nahandian
- Gazettely
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