Fleischner

"I stumbled on it by chance the first year I lived in New York," said Prospect Heights-based filmmaker Sam Fleischner of the parade, which has been a Brooklyn tradition since 1969.

To Capture a Bracing Blowout Bruce Bennett 2011

"We just sort of rode the wave," Mr. Fleischner said.

To Capture a Bracing Blowout Bruce Bennett 2011

Five years later, "Below the Brain," a self-described "experimental documentary" portrait collaboration by Mr. Fleischner, Tony Lowe , Olivia Wyatt and Wills Glasspiegel, will make its premiere Thursday at BAMcinématek, a few days before the 43rd edition of the parade kicks off.

To Capture a Bracing Blowout Bruce Bennett 2011

This experimental film by a quartet of directors— Sam Fleischner , Willis Glasspiegel , Tony Lowe and Olivia Wyatt —captures the 2010 spectacle in wild bursts of color choreographed to a non-stop, polyrhythmic pulse.

Documentary Dramas and Communist Comedies Steve Dollar 2011

Mr. Fleischner agreed: "The parade is so loud and the energy is so chaotic that we couldn't do any kind of traditional filmmaking at all."

To Capture a Bracing Blowout Bruce Bennett 2011

Like many of the estimated 3.5 million people who flock to the parade each year, Mr. Fleischner, a cinematographer and the director of the 2009 micro-budget feature "Wah Do Dem," found the encounter creatively galvanizing.

To Capture a Bracing Blowout Bruce Bennett 2011

From "Cloud of Smoke, Pillar of Fire: Judaism, Christianity and Modernity after the Holocaust" in "Auschwitz: Beginning of a New Era," edited by Eva Fleischner, p.27

Rabbi Lawrence Troster: With Perfect Trust And Doubt: A Yom Kippur Reflection On The Dynamics Of Faith Rabbi Lawrence Troster 2011

An industrious researcher as well as a graceful writer, Fleischner is generally sympathetic to the first lady but does not excuse Mary's many foibles: her terrible temper, her fundamental dishonesty in padding payrolls and household expenses, and her epic narcissism.

Books on Abraham Lincoln 2010

An industrious researcher as well as a graceful writer, Fleischner is generally sympathetic to the first lady but does not excuse Mary's many foibles: her terrible temper, her fundamental dishonesty in padding payrolls and household expenses, and her epic narcissism.

Books on Abraham Lincoln 2010

An industrious researcher as well as a graceful writer, Fleischner is generally sympathetic to the first lady but does not excuse Mary's many foibles: her terrible temper, her fundamental dishonesty in padding payrolls and household expenses, and her epic narcissism.

Books on Abraham Lincoln 2010