Samstag, 29. März 2025, 20:30 - 22:30

Metro Kinokulturhaus, Johannesgasse 4, 1010 Vienna

The Adventures of Saul Bellow, illuminates how Bellow transformed modern literature and navigated the issues of his time, including race, gender and the Jewish immigrant experience, through rare archival footage and interviews with Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and many others. The film traces Bellow’s rise to eminence and examines his many identities: reluctant public intellectual, “serial husband,” father, Chicagoan and Jewish American. It also sheds light on his willingness to confront social issues, his criticism of American society and materialism, and his provocative political views. Asaf Galay is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work investigates Jewish creativity, popular culture, literature, and the contributions of Jewish artists to American history. His documentary series “Cartooning America” won first prize at the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize and was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In 2022, his film The Adventures of Saul Bellow screened on the PBS American Masters series and was a finalist for the Library of Congress Lavine/ Ken Burns Prize for Film; Adventures screened in fifty film festivals worldwide and won multiple festival awards. He is currently working on Gutter Art, a film about American comic art history, and a short documentary for the Fortunoff Video Archive.

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