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The René and Carolyn Balcer Collection comprises some 800 works and includes woodblock prints, watercolors, screens, sketches and other works and writings by Hasui. A major exhibit of the collection, Hasui: Water & Shadow, opened at the VMFA in November 2014 and ran until March 2015.
On December 27, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing hosted the screening of documentary film Above the Drowning Sea and panel discussion featuring its filmmaker René Balcer. Above the Drowning Sea is a 92-minute documentary film depicting the history of hundreds of thousands of persecuted Austrian Jews under the Nazi regime taking refuge in ...
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Drawn from the unparalleled collection donated to VMFA by preeminent Hasui collectors René and Carolyn Balcer, the exhibition exemplifies the creativity and cultural hybridity Hasui’s work embodies. His art has been embraced by American and Japanese audiences alike for nearly a century.
Watch on. NEW YORK, September 28, 2017 — Following a screening of their film Above the Drowning Sea, director René Balcer and producer Carolyn Hsu-Balcer sit down for a Q&A with Asia Society Museum Director Boon Hui Tan. Above the Drowning Sea tells the story of European Jews who, before the onset of World War 2, escaped Nazism by ...
Many thanks to: René Balcer and co-executive producer Carolyn Hsu, and Dr Ezra Claverie, Language Lecturer in the Writing Program at NYU Shanghai. Interview by Charlotte San Juan. Writer-director René Balcer tells how the story of the escape of Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe to Shanghai on the eve of WWII, is an echo of history with ...
Oct 2, 2017 · Balcer co-produced the film with his wife, Carolyn Hsu-Balcer. Balcer got his career start in 1973, as a cameraman covering the Yom Kippur War for Canadian media outlets. He stumbled into...
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René and Carolyn Balcer will appear in-person. Among his many achievements, Mr. Balcer has written, produced, and directed TV’s Law & Order series since 1991. Buy Tickets. Co-presented by VMFA and the 25th Annual James River Film Festival, a volunteer-run nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of film and film as art: jamesriverfilm.org.
