The Ripple Project from Liron Unreich (Flike) on Vimeo.

The Ripple Project is excited to announce our new multimedia website, with the participation of voices from around the world we will provide a platform of expression for those who have witnessed war and it’s effects firsthand. Using a variety of mediums including eyewitness journalism, commissioned writing by survivors of war’s afflictions, and short films only available online we will provide intimate accounts to events that at times seem beyond the grasp of our imaginations.

We will also be chronicling the development of the films we currently have in production including Mirrors, and Brundibár: Beyond Imagination. These films will continue The Ripple Project’s intent to provide stories that connect us all by producing intimate portraits of lives that effect our own but we rarely come in contact with, as well as providing profiles of organizations and individuals of the greater community who do work that calls attention to overlooked issues throughout the world.

Below are links and a brief description of our past and current productions.

The Binding Of Issac:

“I’m not a holocaust survivor, I’m a war victim.” — Isaac Ginzburg

These words haunted filmmaker Liron Unreich when his grandfather, poet and writer Isaac Ginzburg, spoke them in 1996. Three years later Ginzburg would be gone, dead of kidney failure, most likely caused by an intentional overdose of medicine. A lifetime later—60 years—the grief and pain of the Shoah finally surfaced.

Mirrors:

Mirrors is a Ripple film project inspired by the life and work of Holocaust scholar and artist Marc Dennis. The inspiration for the story begins 15 years ago during a visit to Yad Vashem Museum where, at the time, emerging painter Marc Dennis is confronted by a drawing made in the Theresienstadt ghetto by 14 year old Petr Ginz. The drawing, Earth as seen from the moon (1942-1944), shakes Dennis. With the knowledge that being caught with such a drawing would mean immediate death for the young Ginz, Dennis asked himself if he possessed the same passion and commitment to his artwork?

Brundibár: Beyond Imagination:

In a crucial time, as a fading generation of Holocaust survivors become archival histories and the world continues to bear witness to the hatred, brutality and injustice that is genocide, Brundibár: Beyond Imagination will forge a vital link to the past and a blueprint for the future through the execution of a Summer Theater Arts Program which integrates grandchildren of Holocaust survivors with teenagers affected by contemporary African genocides.