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The Now, the first featured art presentation at Coolture Impact, the largest interactive public art platform on the windows of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Times Square, offers a journey into magical worlds, intertwining reality and fantasy, opening doors to hidden places and participatory environments. The Now explores transitory spaces and unseen parallel realities, in a cinematic voyage to visually striking realms, live painting, and animated characters with evolving narratives. Visitors are invited to walk, move and unravel the different storylines.

The Now was created by filmmakers and video artists Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co) through video art, animation, video mapping and interactivity. Interactivity is provided by designers Lorne Covington and Bill Saiff (NoirFlux) and immersive experience developer Karan Parikh.

About Coolture Impact

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Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of Claude Lanzmann's final documentary SHOAH: FOUR SISTERS, a selection of the Cannes and New York Film Festivals, scheduled to open in New York on Wednesday, November 14 at The Quad Cinema followed by a national roll out. Composed of four segments, The Hippocratic Oath, The Merry Flea, Noah’s Ark, and Baluty, SHOAH: FOUR SISTERS will be released theatrically in two parts.

Starting in 1999, Claude Lanzmann made several films that could be considered satellites of SHOAH, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that did not make it into the final, monumental work. In the last years of the director’s life, he decided to devote a film to four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with four different destinies, each finding herself improbably alive after war’s end: Ruth Elias from Ostravia, Czechoslovakia (The Hippocratic Oath); Paula Biren from Lodz, Poland (Baluty); Ada Lichtman from further south in Krakow (The Merry F

Laura Kalba is Associate Professor of Art at Smith College. Selected from a pool of sixty nominated books, Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art (Penn State, 2017) draws from multiple founts of expertise to trace the far-reaching repercussions of a new visual field around color in late nineteenth-century France. Laura Kalba outlines a new field of study around chromatics, at the intersection of technological innovation and class politics, of visual and commercial cultures, of modes of perception and aesthetic judgment.

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Institute of French Studies Event 

Movie and concert in one magical show for all at the Lycée Français!

A creation by Jean-François Alcoléa
Based on Georges Méliès cinematographic works

Discover and experience the poetic and playful universe of legendary French silent film director Georges Méliès through a modern and creative scenic performance with live music!

Enhanced in a light show adapted to the mood of each film, three musicians on stage will play an original composition to create a unique live soundtrack for the 12 visual masterpieces.

Considered the inventor of cinema by the Lumière brothers themselves and the inspiration of Charlie Chaplin, Georges Méliès is also a pioneer in special effects. His far-famed Trip to the Moon is at the root of all sci-fi movies, from Stanley Kubrick's landmark 2001: A Space Odyssey to Interstellar by Christopher Nolan.

Drawing its inspiration from the fictional fantasy worlds such as in The Impossible Voyage, En plein dans l'Oeil is probably the best way to watch Méliès silent