Editta Sherman – “The Duchess of Carnegie Hall”

For over a century Carnegie Hall rented work-live studio spaces atop the famous music hall to artistic tenants such as Marlon Brando, Paddy Chayefsky, and Isadora Duncan.  (How awesome, right?)

Jose Birdman Aster, a tentant with unlimited access into this little known world began to film the lives of his neighbors.  The project took an expected turn when The Carnegie Hall Corporation terminated all of the tenants’ leases, with plans to eliminate the 115 year old artists colony originally put in place by Andrew Carnegie.  The film “LOST BOHEMIA” follows the lives of these tenants to preserve their community and the rich heritage of the studios.

Official selection of DOC NYC Festival
The world premier screening of “LOST BOHEMIA“  a film by Josef Birdman Astor

Friday November 5th at 7:00 pm.
additional screening Mon November 8, at 1:30 pm

7:00 PM, Fri. Nov. 5, 2010 – NYU’s Kimmel Ctr. 4th Floor (Eisner Auditorium)
1:30 PM, Mon. Nov. 8, 2010 – IFC Center

Buy tickets here.