Admission $3.50

Image Before My Eyes is a unique portrait of a culture destroyed by the Nazi Holocaust, the rich and varied civilization of the Jews in Poland in the 1920s and '30s. Directed and edited by former NYU student Josh Waletzky, the film is composed of rare photographic footage (much of which was included in the 1977 photographic exhibit of the same name which inspired Waletzky's film), plus home movies shot in Poland at the time, interpreted in recent interviews with survivors appearing in that footage.
“Image Before My Eyes finds its most predictable though nonetheless charming footage in its ingenuously self-conscious glimpses of unsophisticated shtetl residents, the Jews of Sholom Aleichem's writings. Mr. Waletzky's surprises come with the film he found of Poland's cities, the Jewish communities of Vilna and Cracow as well as Warsaw, where a settled urban population, despite feelings of alienation, lived a layered, apparently secure life. Just how illusory their security would prove was, just then, history's secret.” --Joseph Hurley, Soho Weekly News