An autobiographical film written, directed and edited by Aleks Rosenberg, Zelimo opens in the Catskills in 1964, where 12-year-old Zelimo Kalinsky, a Russian Jewish immigrant currently wearing camouflaging blackface, is alone in the dark of night performing rituals involving a bow and flaming arrow that will become comprehensible at film’s end. There are flashbacks (Zelimo, […]
Daily Archives: April 11, 2009
The restored and visually enriched version of the black-and-white film that Robert Redford has said inspired his creation of the Sundance Institute—it was originally shot in 16mm—is as amiable as it is gorgeous, but with a darkening complexion that interprets the grotesque allegiance that left-behinds have for U.S. capitalism. A fusion of a number of […]
Dennis Grunes 