Peter Schumann, who turns 92 in June, is still going strong.
And on Sunday, May 3rd, this artist's indomitable spirit will be celebrated with the world premiere at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro, Vermont of An Artist Responds to War, a 45-minute documentary about Schumann's refocusing of his paintings and puppets to protest the conflict in Gaza.
The film was made by Robbie Leppzer, who has also been at work for years on a separate feature-length documentary about Schumann's Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont. Leppzer, along with Schumann's daughter Maria and others, will take part in a post-screening Q&A moderated by Reverend Ed Sunday-Winters, pastor of the Greensboro United Church of Christ.
"We don't actually see any documentary footage of Gaza in the film," Leppzer explained in an interview with Seven Days. "We only see Gaza through the paintings and theater productions of Schumann."
"At some of the work-in-progress screenings, people told me that they often get overwhelmed by the actual news footage of the devastation in Gaza," he continued. "But watching Peter's paintings in my film allowed them to open up their hearts and actually feel deep grief."
The film also retraces how Schumann fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1944, met his wife in Munich a decade later and move to the United States in the 1960s. An Artist Responds to War will have a subsequent virtual world premiere May 12th on the platform Kinema.
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