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26. Sept. 2017 · Above the Drowning Sea. A documentary film about World War II refugees in Shanghai. Screenings & Events. Screenings 2017. September 26, 2017: JCC Manhattan, New York: September 28, 2017 : The Asia Society, New York: October 5, 2017: USC, ...
Above the Drowning Sea begins with a quotation from noted Holocaust author Primo Levi: “We the survivors are not the true witnesses. The true witnesses are the drowned, the dead, the disappeared.” From here, the film shifts first to an image of a dinghy carrying refugees from the war in Syria and then to other images of Syrian refugees crossing Europe and encountering resistance. While the ...
The piece is a rearragement of the third movement of his sheng concerto The Color Yellow which brings together music produced by a Chinese instrument accompanied by a Western orchestra. Huang Ruo has been lauded by the New Yorker as “one of the world’s leading young composers” and by the New York Times for having “a distinctive style.”.
Witnesses. Otto Schnepp left Shanghai in 1948 and is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Southern California. He has taught in Haifa and served as Science Counselor at the US embassy in Beijing. He passed away in Walnut Creek, CA in January 2019. William Chiang left Shanghai for San Francisco in 1949 and became an ...
ABOVE THE DROWNING SEA. Directed by. Rene Balcer. Canada, 2017. Documentary, History. 88. Synopsis. A documentary about Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe who, at a time when all doors were closed to them, found sanctuary in Shanghai, thanks to the interven ...
3. Sept. 2020 · Topic Posts: 9. Above the Drowning Sea (documentary) “Above the Drowning Sea” is Documentary about Jewish refugees leaving Vienna. A Chinese diplomat Ho Feng Shan issued about 5,000 visas to Jewish in Austria that allowed them to leave. The Documentary gives you the point of view from the Jewish and the Chinese from Shanghai.
René has also written and produced award-winning documentaries on art and China, and has just completed Above The Drowning Sea, a documentary about Jewish refugees in China. He was a front-line cameraman during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, a journalist in Montréal and an editor at the National Film Board of Canada.
