The Klezmer Project

As with a traditional documentary, The Klezmer Project is affected by forces outside the filmmakers’ control.

The Klezmer Project meticulously subverts its structural expectations in service of a hybridized docu-fiction register, working best both as ethnomusicology and as meditation on its intrinsically whimsical and rewarding process.

Argentinian debut directors Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann set off on an unconventional and amusing search for their Ashkenazi Jewish identity through fictional and documentary traces of klezmer music, Yiddish language, and their relationship.

The Klezmer Project gifts us an internal and external journey in search of the roots of a lost paradise. [Full review in Spanish]

Koch and crew manage to mostly pull it off, taking the viewer on a journey filled with scrutiny and intrigue on a topic most of us know little to nothing about.

Not a total success, but it’s so interesting it doesn’t matter.

Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann create, write, film, edit, and star in this search that relates to reclaiming roots and identity. [Full review in Spanish]