A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff

Patio: 6:00 PM, Speaker 6:30 PM, Film 7:00 PM

Director, Alicia Rose. Winner: Audience Award, 2021 Ashland Independent Film Festival, Jim Ewing Young Director’s Award, 2021 Port Townsend Film Festiva, and Terry Porter Visionary Award, 2021 Sarasota Film Festival. 

Guest Speaker: Director, Alicia Rose. A hybrid of memoir docudrama and narrative fantasy set on Wall Street in 2008, A KADDISH FOR BERNIE MADOFF tells the story of Madoff and the system that allowed him to function for decades through the eyes of musician/poet Alicia Jo Rabins, who watches the financial crash from her 9th floor studio in an abandoned office building on Wall Street. Fueled by her growing obsession, real-life interviews transform into music videos, ancient spiritual texts become fevered fantasies of synchronized swimming, and a vivid, vulnerable work of art is born from the unique perspective of an artist watching the global financial collapse up close.