About this Event
Following two sold-out performances in New York, Ukrainian-Canadian award- winning composer and pianist Taras Luka returns to New Jersey with Man With a Movie Camera — a live cinema experience combining Dziga Vertov’s groundbreaking 1929 silent film with Luka’s original piano score, performed live.
Created in Ukraine and filmed in Kyiv, Odesa, and Kharkiv, Man With a Movie Camera is one of the most influential works of avant-garde cinema. In Sight & Sound’s 2014 poll, it was named the greatest documentary film of all time.
At the heart of the project is the revival of silent cinema with live music as a distinct art form. Through a contemporary reimagining of Man With a Movie Camera, the audience does not simply watch a historic film — they experience it as a living work of art, where cinema, music, and the presence of the performer come together in real time.
Nearly a century after the film was created, Luka’s original score establishes a new dialogue with Vertov’s images and rhythms. Rather than simply accompanying the film, the music becomes part of the storytelling, transforming each screening into a live performance shaped by the interaction between the screen, the pianist, and the audience.
The project has already been presented across Canada and the United States, including two sold-out performances in New York.
October · Guest Artist Presentation at Guest Artist at NYU Tisch School of the Arts - Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies (non-public).
Private academic presentation · Not open to the public
The following evening, October 22 at 7:30 PM, Man With a Movie Camera returns to a New York audience at the Ukrainian National Home NYC.
October 24, 2026 · 7 PM
$ 30 PRESALE
$ 40 WEEK OF SHOW
FORTE PIANO MUSIC COMPANY, NJ
159 Rte 4, Paramus, NJ 07652
Taras Luka — piano & original score
Man With a Movie Camera (1929) — Dziga Vertov
tarasluka.com
https://www.instagram.com/taras.luka/
One film. One pianist. One night in New York.
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159 Rte 4, 159 Route 4, Paramus, United States
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