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It’s unlikely to find yourself forced to co-direct, but if you’ve made the choice to collaborate this closely with someone, you might still have some lingering…
The past year pushed many of us inside, pulling cinephiles such as myself away from the strange comfort of air-conditioned, butter-scented, sticky movie theaters and mediocre new blockbusters; exchanging such musky yet cozy delights for the arid landscape of PVOD and streaming releases such as Netfl
(RNS) In 2008, Jewish singer-songwriter Alicia Jo Rabins had a front-row seat to the financial crisis.
Rabins, who has released three albums featuring the stories of women in the Torah as part of her project Girls in Trouble, had a day job teaching bat mitzvah students to chant from the Torah. She also was an artist-in-residence in an abandoned office building on Wall Street.
From her ninth-floor studio, she found herself drawn into the stories surrounding Bernie Madoff’s arrest for his role in the largest Ponzi scheme in history and the spiritual questions it raised.
She wrestled with the fact that both Madoff and many of his victims were Jewish. She heard rumors that a Palm Beach synagogue, which counted many of the victims among its members, had recited the Mourner’s Kaddish for Madoff, effectively excommunicating him. She interviewed people connected to Madoff, turned their stories into songs, searched spiritual texts and created rituals to make sense of it all.
If you knew that the end of the world was imminent, how would you spend your final days? Personally, I’d probably spend them taking edibles, listening to my favorite music, and eating my weight in Girl Scout cookies. But Everything in the End, part of this year’s Portland International Film Festival lineup, provides a slightly more introspective answer, producing a film about the end of the world that’s heartfelt rather than bombastic. In Everything in.